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  2. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC (25 December 1891 – 29 April 1959) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars.

  3. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC (25 December 1891 – 29 April 1959) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the British First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa and the subsequent Tunisian campaign which ended with the ...

  4. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC (25 December 1891 – 29 April 1959) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars.

    • Early Life and Military Career
    • Between The Wars
    • Second World War
    • Post-War
    • References

    Anderson was born in British India, the son of Arthur Robert Anderson, a Scottish railway engineer, and Charlotte Gertrude Isabella Duffy Fraser, and was sent to England, where he was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders of the British ...

    Anderson's military career during the interwar period was active. He served as adjutant to the Scottish Horse from 1920–24, and was promoted to major during this posting. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, where he apparently did not do that well. His superior, Colonel Percy Hobart, thought it "questionable whether he had the capacity to develo...

    Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, Anderson led the 11th Brigade, still part of the 4th Division, overseas to France where it became part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Anderson saw service with the BEF throughout the "Phoney War" period and during the Battle of France in May 1940 and, when Major-Gener...

    After the war he was military C-in-C and Governor of Gibraltar, where his most notable achievements were to build new houses to relieve the poor housing conditions, and the constitutional changes which established a Legislative Council. He was promoted full general in July 1949 when he was made a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John and reti...

    Anderson, Lt.-General Kenneth (1946). Official despatch by Kenneth Anderson, GOC-in-C First Army covering events in NW Africa, 8 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 published in Republic of Égyptien Q42 us...
    Atkinson, Rick (2003). An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt & Co.. ISBN 0-8050-7448-1.
    Blaxland, Gregory (1977). The Plain Cook and the Great Showman : The First and Eighth Armies in North Africa. Kimber. ISBN 0-7183-0185-4.
    Blumenson, Martin (1966). Kasserine Pass. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 3947767.
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  5. Governor-General & Commander in Chief of Gibraltar. 1952-06-06. Retired. Picture source: Courtesy of Paul Godley. This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson. He was a general during World War Two.

  6. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson led the 11th Brigade, which was still part of the 4th Division, overseas to France as part...

  7. Aug 20, 2023 · Who was Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson? General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC was a British Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of Tunisia.