Major-General David John St. Maur Tabor CB MC (5 October 1922 – 18 May 2004) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Tabor was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1942 and saw action in North-West Europe during the Second World War. ^[1] He became commanding officer of the Royal Horse Guards and in that role was deployed to Cyprus. ^[1] He went on to be commander of the Berlin Infantry Brigade in 1967, British Military Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1969 and a member of the directing staff at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1971. ^[1] After that he became British Defence Attaché in Paris in 1972 and then General Officer Commanding Eastern District in 1975 before retiring in 1977. ^[2]

He was made Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1977 New Year Honours List. ^[3]

He married Pamela Roxane Nivison, daughter of John Nivison, 2nd Baron Glendyne, in 1955; they had two sons. ^[1] After the death of his first wife, he married Marguerite Arkwright (née Verdon) in 1989. ^[1] She died in 2020. ^[4]

References