John Harding, 1st Baron Harding Of Petherton
Field Marshal "John" Allan Francis Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, GCB, CBE, DSO & two bars, MC (10 February 1896 – 20 January 1989) was a British Army officer who fought in both World Wars as well as the Malayan Emergency and later advised the British Government on the response to the Mau Mau Uprising. He also served as Governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1957 during the Cyprus Emergency.
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