Henry Abel Smith

Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith, KCMG, KCVO, DSO (8 March 1900 – 24 January 1993) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Queensland, Australia.

His younger brother was Brigadier Sir Alexander Abel Smith (1904–1980), whose second wife was Henriette Alice Cadogan (d.2005), a descendant of the 4th Earl Cadogan, who between 1949 and 1987 served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II).

[4] Promoted on 17 December 1921 to lieutenant,[5] between 1928 and 1930[2] he served as aide-de-camp (ADC) to Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, whose daughter he later married.

[2] Abel Smith served in the Second World War, where from 1941 to 1945 he commanded the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment, leading it throughout the entire North West Europe Campaign from June 1944 shortly after D-Day to Victory in Europe Day in May 1945.

By his wife he had three children: Abel Smith died at home at Barton Lodge, Winkfield, Berkshire, on 24 January 1993 aged 92, just weeks away from his 93rd birthday.

Arms of Smith: Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other . These are the arms of Smith/Carington, Baron Carrington and of Smith, Baron Bicester , both descendants of the banker Abel Smith II (1717–1788) [ 1 ]
Scenes of jubilation as British troops liberate Brussels , 4 September 1944. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Abel Smith, CO of the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment, arrives in his Staghound armoured car .