Stafford Floyer-Acland | |
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Born | 23 December 1916 |
Died | 1994 (aged 77–78) |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1935–1968 |
Rank | Brigadier |
Battles/wars |
Second World War Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation |
Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Relations | Lieutenant General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland (father) |
Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland, CBE, DL (23 December 1916 – 1994) [1] was a British soldier.
Floyer-Acland was the only child of Lieutenant General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland and his wife Evelyn Stafford Still, daughter of Stafford Francis Still. [2]
He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. [1]
He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1937 [3] and, after the Second World War, became major in 1950. [4]
Floyer-Acland was transferred as lieutenant colonel to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the end of 1959, [5] and was promoted to colonel in 1964. [6] Two years later, he became a brigadier, [7] serving as deputy commander of the land forces in Borneo. Subsequently he was Brigadier of Administration and Quartering, Northern Command in 1967, [1] for which he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. [8] He retired from active service in the following year [9] and in 1972, he became deputy colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, a post he held until 1977. [10]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset in 1974, [11] and became a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county in the year thereafter. [12]
On 14 April 1950, Floyer-Acland married Patricia Egidia Hastings Emmott, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott. [1] They had three children, two sons and one daughter. [1]
Floyer-Acland died in 1994.