Died 1991 Rank Major-General Years of service 1924-1961 | Service/branch British Army Allegiance United Kingdom Name Nigel Tapp | |
Commands held 7th Field Regiment
Commander, Royal Artillery 25th Indian Infantry Division
2nd Anti Aircraft Group
East Africa Command | ||
Major-General Sir Nigel (Prior Hanson) Tapp KBE CB DSO (1904–1991) was General Officer Commanding East Africa Command.
Military career
Educated at Bedford School, Nigel Tapp was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1924. He served in the Sudan Defence Force from 1932 to 1938.
He also served in World War II initially as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force and then as a General Staff Officer at the War Office. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 7th Field Regiment Royal Artillery in 1942 and was still commanding it during Operation Overlord in June 1944. He then became Commander Royal Artillery for 25th Division in 1945.
After the War he became District Commander for Eritrea in 1946 and then Deputy Director of Land/Air Warfare at the War Office in 1948. He was made Deputy Director, Royal Artillery in 1949. He became Commander, Royal Artillery, for 1st (British) Corps in 1951 and General Officer Commanding 2nd Anti Aircraft Group in 1954. He was Director of Military Training at the War Office from 1955 to 1957 when he became General Officer Commanding East Africa Command; he retired in 1961.