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John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, was a British Army field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and later as Governor of Cyprus during the 1950s.

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instanceOf British Army officer
baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
field marshal
human
allegiance United Kingdom
appointed Governor of Cyprus in 1955
awardReceived Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)
linked to: Croix de Guerre

Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)
linked to: Croix de Guerre

Distinguished Service Order
Efficiency Decoration
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight of the Garter
Legion of Merit
Military Cross
Order of George I
Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
Virtuti Militari
child John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton
commanded 8th Armoured Division
Allied Land Forces, Central Mediterranean
British Army of the Rhine
XIII Corps
conflict Cyprus Emergency
First World War
linked to: World War I

Second World War
linked to: World War II
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1896-02-10
dateOfDeath 1989-01-20
educatedAt Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
employer War Office
memberOf House of Lords
militaryBranch British Army
militaryRank Field Marshal
nobleTitle Baron Harding of Petherton
notableWork Counter-insurgency operations during the Cyprus Emergency
placeOfBirth Woking, Surrey, England
linked to: Woking
placeOfDeath Nether Compton, Dorset, England
positionHeld Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Governor of Cyprus
High Commissioner of Cyprus
religion Anglicanism
replacedBy Hugh Foot, 1st Baron Caradon, as Governor of Cyprus
residence Petherton, Somerset, England
serviceEnd 1958
serviceStart 1915
spouse Mary Gertrude Harding, Baroness Harding of Petherton
title 1st Baron Harding of Petherton

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John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton givenName John
subject linked to: Major-General John Harding