Harding, John, Baron Harding of Petherton

Harding, John, Baron Harding of Petherton

▪ British military officer
original name  Allan Francis Harding 
born February 10, 1896, South Petherton, Somerset, Eng.
died January 20, 1989, Nether Compton, Dorset

      British army officer, noted as the leader of the North African “ Desert Rats” in World War II.

      After graduating from Ilminster Grammar School (1912), Harding joined the Territorial Army as a part-time reservist. Called to the regular army at the beginning of World War I, he commanded a machine-gun battalion in the Middle East as acting lieutenant colonel, a rank he lost after the war but officially regained in 1938. At the outbreak of World War II, he was transferred from his regular post in India to the Middle East and in 1942 was chosen to head the 7th Armoured Division, known as the “Desert Rats.”

      Harding was seriously wounded (January 1943), but he returned to the fighting in the Italian campaign as chief of staff under General Sir Harold Alexander (March 1944), whom Harding succeeded as commander of the British forces in the Mediterranean theatre after the war. Harding, who was promoted to general (1949) and field marshal (1953), headed the British Far East Land Forces (1949–51) and the British Army of the Rhine (1951–52) before being named chief of the Imperial General Staff (1952–55). He postponed his intended retirement when he was appointed military governor and commander in chief in Cyprus (1955–57), where he deported the nationalist leader Archbishop Makarios III in 1956. Harding was granted a life peerage soon after his retirement in 1958.

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