RARE "Dragoon Guards" Sir John D'Arcy Anderson Signed FDC For Sale
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RARE "Dragoon Guards" Sir John D'Arcy Anderson Signed FDC:
$349.99
Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Dragoon Guards" Sir John D'Arcy Anderson Signed First Day Cover.
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General Sir John
D'Arcy Anderson, GBE, KCB, DSO (23 September
1908 – 16 April 1988) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the
1960s. John D'Arcy Anderson was born on 23 September 1908 in Downpatrick, Ireland, the only son of Reginald D'Arcy
Anderson. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Royal
Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1929. He served in
the Second World War in
France, the Middle East and Italy.
After the war Anderson was appointed General Officer Commanding 11th Armoured Division in Germany in 1955 and then Chief of Staff at Headquarters Northern Army Group and British Army of the Rhine in
1956. He became Director of the Royal Armoured Corps in
1958 and Director General of Military Training at the War Office in 1959.
Anderson was appointed Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff in 1961 and Military
Secretary in 1963. Finally he became Commandant
of the Imperial Defence College in 1966; he retired in 1968. He
was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the
Bath in the 1961 New Year Honours.
Anderson was also the first Colonel Commandant of Ulster Defence Regiment from
1969 to 1979. In that capacity he escorted the Queen during her Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland in 1977. A purpose built operations
centre for the UDR was built at Ballykinler army base and named in honour of the general
who was known as "The father of the UDR".
From 1962 to 1967 Anderson was Colonel of the 5th Royal
Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
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