Sir Richard Anderson
1907 – 1979
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	17th Gurkha Division British Forces in Malaya Middle East Land Forces Northern Ireland Command
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Neville Anderson KCB CBE DSO (1907-1979) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1960s.

[edit] Military career

Richard Anderson was commissioned into the King's Own Royal Regiment in 1927.^[1] He was deployed to Palestine between 1938 and 1939.^[1]

He served in World War II as a Brigade Commander in the Middle East and then in Italy.^[1]

After the War he returned to Palestine and then became General Officer Commanding 17th Gurkha Division in 1955.^[1] He was General Officer Commanding Overseas Forces in Malaya in 1957 and then Vice Adjutant General at the War Office from 1958.^[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Middle East Land Forces in 1960 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Ireland Command in 1963; he retired in 1965.^[1]

He lived at Tarrant Keynston House near Blandford in Dorset.^[2]

[edit] References

Military offices
Preceded by John Hackett	General Officer Commanding the British Army in Northern Ireland 1963—1965	Succeeded by Desmond Fitzpatrick