Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland CBE JP (19 August 1858 – 22 March 1937) was a distinguished British Army officer.
[1][2] The son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland by his marriage to Sarah Cotton, Acland was educated at Temple Grove School and Charterhouse School, before being commissioned into the Royal Devon Yeomanry[clarification needed] (Territorial Army).
[4] He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1910 when he took up command of the Royal Devon Yeomanry.
In 1915, during the First World War, he was appointed to command the Base Depot Remounts and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre.
They had six children: This biographical article related to the British Army is a stub.