General Sir Herbert John Mogg, GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar (17 February 1913 – 28 October 2001) was a senior British Army officer who also held the NATO position of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR)[3] and was "in his time, probably the British army's most popular general".

After three years in the ranks he was selected for Sandhurst, where he gained the Sword of Honour in 1936, being commissioned into the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, (43rd & 52nd) in August 1937.

In 1939, Mogg was posted to the 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, a newly formed Territorial training unit, and served initially as adjutant and later second-in-command.

By 1943, Major Mogg was in command of a Divisional Battle School at Margate, 61st Infantry Division, XI Corps, Home Forces.

In the breakout from the Normandy beachhead, the 9th DLI supported by the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards were ordered to attack the village of Lingèvres on 14 June 1944, defended by the Panzer Lehr Division.

As we crossed the start line all hell let loose from our own side and what with Typhoons and the artillery barrage and the tanks all shooting up the enemy positions in the wood, you could have seen the ground literally dance in front of you.

However we advanced...and I spoke to Humphrey Woods on my radio, and this is the last time I heard him, and he said "We are running into terrible trouble here on the left, all the ‘A’ Company officers are casualties.

I remember my Gunner officer was up by the Church in his tank at the main crossroads and we made a plan for some Artillery Fires which I could call for quickly."

However the 9th DLI was reinforced and transferred to the 7th Armoured Division, 131st Infantry Brigade, as a motorised battalion fighting at the Roer Triangle in January 1945 and the town of Ibbenbüren in March.

From 1958 he commanded the 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade Group in the final stages of the Malayan Emergency, where he received the Meritorious Medal from the Sultan of Perak.

[6] In Detmold, Germany, a primary school for children whose parents are serving in the British Army was named after Sir John Mogg.