{{Short description|British Army general}} {{about||the British X-ray crystallographer|Arthur Lindo Patterson|the earlier British Army office|Arthur Paterson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Major-General | name = Arthur Patterson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|DSO|OBE|MC}} | image = Brigadier Patterson (1962).jpg | caption = Brigadier Patterson in 1962 | birth_date = 24 July 1917<ref name="death">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref> | death_date = 27 May 1996 (aged 78)<ref>''UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014''</ref> | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = British India | death_place = Benenden, Kent | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = 1938–1972 | rank = Major-General | unit = | commands = 17th Gurkha Division | battles = World War II<br/>Malayan Emergency<br/>Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath<br/>Distinguished Service Order<br/>Officer of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Military Cross | relations = | other_work = }} Major-General '''Arthur Gordon Patterson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|DSO|OBE|MC}} (24 July 1917 – 27 May 1996) was a British Army officer who commanded 17th Gurkha Division.
==Military career== Patterson was born in British India, the son of Arthur Abbey Patterson of the Indian Civil Service, and educated at Tonbridge School, Kent.<ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1973 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=2900 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SIMAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was commissioned into the British Indian Army in 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34477|page=589|date=28 January 1938}}</ref> He served in World War II with the 6th Gurkha Rifles being awarded the Military Cross for his exploits in Burma in May 1945.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37091|supp=y|page=2651|date=24 May 1945}}</ref> In 1951 he was deployed to Malaya at the height of the Malayan Emergency for which he was appointed MBE.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39361|supp=y|page=5431|date=19 October 1951}}</ref> He was later given command of a battalion of his Regiment and appointed OBE for further service in Malaya.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42237|supp=y|page=8941|date=27 December 1960}}</ref> In 1964, as a temporary Brigadier during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, he took part in the response to the Brunei Revolt rounding up escaped rebel leaders in the swamps and jungles over a wide area of North Borneo for which he was awarded the DSO.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43244|supp=y|page=1343|date=11 February 1964}}</ref> He was appointed General Officer Commanding 17th Gurkha Division in December 1965 and Director of Military Training in June 1969 before retiring in 1972.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf Army Commands] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |date=5 July 2015 }}</ref>
He was given the Colonelcy of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles from 1969 to 1974.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://regiments.org/regiments/southasia/gurkha/06GR.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101204744/http://regiments.org/regiments/southasia/gurkha/06GR.htm| url-status=dead| archive-date=1 January 2007|title=6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles|publisher= regiments.org|accessdate=9 January 2017}}</ref>
== Honours == * 50x50px Order of the Bath (CB) * 50x50px Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (1964) * 50x50px Order of the British Empire Officer (OBE) (1951) * 50x50px Military Cross (MC) (May 1945)
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