Derek Horsford
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Major-General Derek Gordon Thomond Horsford CBE DSO & bar (7 February 1917 – 5 October 2007) was a British Army officer who commanded the 17th Gurkha Division
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Military career
Educated at
Burma under heavy fire.[2]
After a tour on the staff of
Territorial Army in 1966 and General Officer Commanding Yorkshire District in 1967.[3] His last appointments were as General Officer Commanding 17th Gurkha Division and Malaya District in 1969 and Deputy Commander Land Forces, Hong Kong in 1970 before retiring in 1971.[2]
From 1965 to 1970 he was Colonel of the King's Regiment.[4]
Family
In 1948 he married Sheila Kitson (née Crawford); they had a son, a stepson and two stepdaughters.[2] Following the death of his first wife, he married Gillian Moorhouse (née Horsford), who brought him two more stepsons, in 1996.[2]
References
- ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p427: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Obituary: Major-General Derek Horsford The Telegraph, 11 October 2007
- ^ Army Commands Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Kings Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2017.