John D'Arcy (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General John Conyers D'Arcy CBE MC (12 February 1894 – 1 February 1966) was a British Army officer who commanded 9th Armoured Division during World War II.

Military career
Born the son of the Most Reverend Charles D'Arcy, D'Arcy was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914. He fought in the First World War and while on leave saw active service with the British Army during the Easter Rising, leading the attack on the General Post Office, Dublin. He was wounded on the North-West Frontier of India in 1931 and awarded the Military Cross. He served again in the Second World War, commanded 9th Armoured Division in the UK from 1942, rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General and became the Commander of British forces in Palestine and Transjordan from 1944. He retired in 1946.

He lived at Hyde Park in County Westmeath in Ireland.

Family
In 1920 he married Noël Patricia Wakefield; they had two sons.