Richard Anderson (British Army officer)

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

Military career
Born the son of Colonel Sir Neville Anderson CBE, Richard Anderson was commissioned into the King's Own Royal Regiment in 1927. He was deployed to Palestine between 1938 and 1939.

He served in World War II as Deputy Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office and then as Commander of 2nd Infantry Brigade in Italy.

After the War he returned to Palestine and then became General Officer Commanding 17th Gurkha Division in 1955. He was General Officer Commanding Overseas Forces in Malaya in 1957 and then Vice Adjutant General at the War Office from 1958. 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.

He lived at Tarrant Keynston House near Blandford in Dorset.

In 1942, he married Dorrie Norah Wybergh. The couple had two sons.

Honours and awards

 * Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath 10 June 1961 (CB 1 January 1957)
 * Commander of the Order of the British Empire 7 January 1949
 * Distinguished Service Order 7 December 1944, 28 June 1945
 * Mentioned in Despatches 15 September 1939
 * Honorary Fellow, Institute of Civil Defence, 1966