Brigadier Sir Ivan de la Bere, KCVO, CB, CBE (25 April 1893 – 27 December 1970) was a senior British Army officer, who played a prominent part in the Siege of Malta during the Second World War.

The island was dependent on supply convoys fighting their way through from Gibraltar or Alexandria, and meanwhile, the garrison and people were subjected to some of the heaviest bombing of the war for a period of over two years.

For its part, the island provided a base for air and sea attacks on supply convoys to the Italian and German forces fighting in North Africa.

[2][4] De la Bere retired from the army with the rank of brigadier after the Second World War and in 1947 was appointed Secretary-General of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, an office within the Royal Household at St James's Palace responsible for administering a large part of the British Honours system.

Ann was aboard the MV Abosso (1 of 10 civilian casualties) when she was sunk by German submarine U-575 on 29 October 1942, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and British Isles.