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Major-General Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland, KCB, CBE, DL (26 November 1928 – 17 November 2006)[1] was a British soldier.
Background and education
He was the older son of Peter Acland and his wife Bridget Susan Barnett, daughter of Herbert Barnett.[2] His younger brother Antony was head of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service and British Ambassador in Washington.[1] Acland was educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1]
Career
In 1948, he was commissioned into the Scots Guards as a 2nd lieutenant.[3] Two years later, he fought as lieutenant in the Malayan Emergency and promoted to captain in 1954, was with his regiment involved in the Cyprus Emergency in 1957.[2] Subsequently he was nominated equerry to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, a post he held for the next two years.[4] Acland went to staff college and then took part in the combats of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya as a major.[1] Following the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, he was appointed brigade major of 4th Guards Brigade in the British Army of the Rhine and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1967.[4] He became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards in 1968 and led it in the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969.[2]
After the announcement of the battalion's possible disbandment, he spoke out against it in a letter to The Times, what prompted his senior general to suspend further advancement for the time being.[2] Acland was sent to desk work in the Ministry of Defence, responsible for the annual review of the number of major-generals' posts in the British Army.[2] In 1976, he was finally promoted to brigadier-general and became commander of the land forces in Cyprus.[4] Two years later, he was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and obtained command of the South West District as a major-general.[4] With the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and the establishment of the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, Acland was selected commander of the Commonwealth Monitoring Force.[4]
On his return to England in the following year, he was invested a Knight Commander of Order of the Bath.[5] Acland retired in 1981 and spent his time first as director of Allied Vintners, then as chairman of the South West Working Party on Alcohol.[1] He was made honorary colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry in 1983 and was granted the same rank also of the Exeter University Officer's Training Corps in 1986 and of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1989.[1] Acland was president of The Royal British Legion Devon and sat in the Dartmoor National Park Authority.[2] Having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant from 1985, he was appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon in 1995.[6]
Family
On 12 November 1953, he married Myrtle Christian Euing Crawford, daughter of Brigadier Alistair Wardrop Euing Crawford, and had by her one son and one daughter.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary - Major-General Sir John Acland". The Telegraph. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary - Major-General Sir John Acland". The Times Online. 23 November 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
- ^ "No. 38535". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 11 February 1949. - ^ a b c d e "AIM25 - ACLAND, Maj Gen Sir John Hugh Bevil (1928-2006)". Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "No. 48212". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 13 June 1980. - ^ a b "ThePeerage - Maj-Gen Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland". Retrieved 14 December 2006.
- 1928 births
- 2006 deaths
- British Army generals
- British military personnel of the Cyprus Emergency
- British military personnel of the Mau Mau Uprising
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Old Etonians
- Sandhurst graduates
- Scots Guards officers
- British Army personnel of the Malayan Emergency