Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland, CBE

Order of the British Empire

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Venerable Order of Saint John

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, JP (19 August 1858 – 22 March 1937) was a British

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 distinguished military officer.

The son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland and Sarah Cottons, he served in the Royal Devon Yeomanry

Royal Devon Yeomanry

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 (Territorial Army) reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel

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 in 1910. He commanded the Base Depot Remounts in 1915 and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre

Croix de guerre

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. In 1917, Acland was Assistant Director of Labour and in 1918 the Labour Commandant of the Australian Corps

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. He was invested as a Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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 (CBE) in 1920. He was further a Justice of Peace for Devon

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On 30 July 1885 he married Beatrice Danvers Smith, daughter of W. H. Smith of the newsagents dynasty. They had five children:

• Angela Cicely Mary Acland (1888–1953)
• Katherine Acland (1892–1966)
• Sarah Beatrice Acland (1896–1979)
• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Acland (1897–1992)
• Peter Bevil Edward Acland (1902–1993)