Lieutenant-General Sir Terence Douglas Herbert McMeekin KCB

Order of the Bath

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 OBE

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 (27 September 1918 - 3 August 1984) is a former British Army

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 officer who commanded 3rd Division.

Military career

McMeekin was commissioned into the Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

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 in 1938. He served in World War II

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 as a general staff officer before becoming Brigade Major, Royal Artillery for 1st Airborne Division in 1945. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 29th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1960, Chief Instructor (Tactics) at the School of Artillery

Royal School of Artillery

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 at Larkhill

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 in 1962 and Commander of 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade Group in Malaya

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 in 1964. He went on to be Director of Public Relations (Army) at the Ministry of Defence

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 in 1967, General Officer Commanding

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 3rd Division in 1968 and Commandant of the National Defence College

Joint Service Defence College

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 in 1970. His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding South East District

Aldershot Command

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 in 1972 before retiring in 1975.

In retirement he was Lieutenant of the Tower of London

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 from 1981 and 1983 and a Freeman of the City of London

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.

He lived at the Old Rectory in Beverston

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 in Gloucestershire

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and there is a memorial to him at St Mary's Church there.