Reginald Harding Explained

Reginald Harding
Birth Date:3 July 1905
Death Date:27 December 1981 (aged 76)
Allegiance:United Kingdom
Branch:British Army
Serviceyears:1925−1958
Servicenumber:31957
Rank:Major-General
Unit:5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
Commands:7th Armoured Brigade
Royal Armoured Corps Centre
49th (West Riding) Armoured Division
East Anglian District
Battles:Second World War
Awards:Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Reginald Peregrine Harding, (3 July 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a British Army officer.

Military career

After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Harding was commissioned into the 5th/6th Dragoons on 29 January 1925. He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in the 1940 Birthday Honours for his services in the Second World War.

After the war, in October 1946, he became commander of 22nd Armoured Brigade which was re-designated 7th Armoured Brigade in January 1947; he then became Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre at Bovington Camp in August 1949.[1] He went on to be General Officer Commanding 49th (West Riding) Armoured Division in December 1951 and General Officer Commanding East Anglian District in May 1955 before retiring in June 1958.[1]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1953 Coronation Honours.

In 1933, as an amateur jockey, he won the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup on a horse known as "Ego" which had been trained by Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Lindsay.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Army Commands. 7 June 2020.
  2. Book: Oakley, Robin. The Cheltenham Festival: A Centenary History. Aurum Press. 2011. 978-1845136369.