Lieutenant General Sir Allan Macnab Taylor, KBE, MC (26 March 1919 – 13 June 2004) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Division from 1968 to 1970.
Educated at Fyling Hall School, Taylor was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1940 during the Second World War.
[2] As a squadron commander with the 7th Royal Tank Regiment, he took part in the Normandy landings in June 1944, the seizing of a bridgehead over the River Odon later in the month and the Battle for Caen in July 1944.
[2] He was appointed assistant adjutant and quartermaster general for the 1st Armoured Division in 1962, Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School at Lulworth in 1963 and commander of the Berlin Brigade in Germany in 1964.
[2] In 1945 Taylor married Madelaine Turpin (marriage dissolved in 1963); they had two daughters.