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John Nelson (British Army officer)

British Army officer

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Major-General
name	Sir John Nelson
honorific_suffix
birth_name	Eustace John Blois Nelson
birth_date
birth_place	Shenley, Hertfordshire, England
death_date
death_place	Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch	British Army
serviceyears	1933–1968
rank	Major-General
servicenumber	53116
unit	Grenadier Guards
commands	British Forces in Berlin
London District
4th Guards Brigade Group
1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
1st Guards Parachute Battalion
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
battles	Second World War
Palestine Emergency
awards	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross

London District 4th Guards Brigade Group 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards 1st Guards Parachute Battalion 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards Palestine Emergency Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross Major-General Sir Eustace John Blois Nelson, (15 June 1912 – 23 December 1993) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and later served as Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.

Military career

Nelson was born in Hertfordshire, the son of barrister Roland Nelson and Hyla Letitia Grace, sixth daughter of Sir John Ralph Blois, 8th Baronet. He was educated at West Downs School and Eton College, Nelson entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards in 1933.

He served in the Second World War, latterly as Commanding Officer (CO) of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Italian Campaign.

After the war he became CO of the 1st Guards Parachute Battalion in Palestine, before transferring to the War Office as a General Staff Officer (GSO) in 1948. He was CO of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards in Tripoli from 1950 until 1952, when he became a GSO at London District. In 1954 he joined the British military staff in Washington, D.C. and in 1959 he commanded the 4th Guards Brigade Group in Germany. He was made Major-General commanding the Household Brigade and General Officer Commanding (GOC) London District in 1962 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1966. He retired from the British Army in 1968.

Following his death in 1993, a memorial service was held at Wellington Barracks, London.

Family

Nelson married Lady (Margaret) Jane Fitzroy, granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Grafton, who was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in 1931. In 1999, their elder daughter, Jennifer Forwood, received the title of Baroness Arlington, which had been abeyant since the death of Nelson's brother-in-law the 9th Duke of Grafton in 1936. Their second daughter, Juliet Auriol Sally Nelson, married Captain Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 6th Bt.

References

(1939). "[[Burke's Peerage". Burke's Peerage & Gentry.
[http://www.westdowns.com/owd_died.htm Old West Downs Society]
(2003). ""Stimme Der Wahrheit": German-language Broadcasting by the BBC". Rodopi.
"Nelson, John". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.
{{London Gazette. (1 September 1933)
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/court-circular-1371663.html?cmp=ilc-n Court Circular] ''The Independent'', 22 April 1994
(2003). "[[Burke's Peerage". Burke's Peerage & Gentry.
{{London Gazette. (3 July 1931)
(1999-05-27). "The Barony of Arlington (Hansard, 27 May 1999)".

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