- John Hugh Bevil Acland
Major-General Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland KCB, CBE, DL (
26 November 1928 –17 November 2006 ) was a British soldier.The son of
Peter Bevil Edward Acland and Bridget Susan Barnett was educated atEton College ,Berkshire . He was commissioned fromSandhurst into theScots Guards in 1948. Acland fought in theMalayan Emergency , theCyprus Campaign and theKenya nMau Mau Uprising . Between 1968 and 1971, he was Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion,Scots Guards . He fought in theZanzibar Revolution in 1964 and in theNorthern Ireland riots of August 1969 . From 1975 and 1978, he was Commander of the Land Forces inCyprus , from 1978 and 1981 General Officer in Command of the South West District and Commander of the Monitoring Force inRhodesia from 1979 and 1980.Having been
Equerry to the Duke of Gloucester between 1957 and 1959, Acland was invested as aCommander of theOrder of the British Empire in 1978 and as a Knight Commander ofOrder of the Bath in 1980. He wasDeputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1985 and became Honorary Colonel of theExeter University Officer's Training Corps one year later. In 1989, he was further made Honorary Colonel of theRoyal Devon Yeomanry and of theRoyal Wessex Yeomanry . In 1995, he was also Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon.On
12 November 1953 , he married Myrtle Christian Euing Crawford, daughter ofBrigadier Alistair Wardrop Euing Crawford. They had one son and one daughter.His younger brother Antony was Head of the
Diplomatic Service from 1982 to 1986 andAmbassador toWashington from 1986 to 1991.References
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