Stafford Floyer-Acland

Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland, CBE, DL (23 December 1916 – 1994)[1] was a British soldier.

[1] He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1937[3] and, after the Second World War, became major in 1950.

[6] Two years later, he became a brigadier,[7] serving as deputy commander of the land forces in Borneo.

[8] He retired from active service in the following year[9] and in 1972, he became deputy colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, a post he held until 1977.

[10] He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset in 1974,[11] and became a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county in the year thereafter.