# Reginald Harding

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For the basketball player, see [Reggie Harding](/source/Reggie_Harding).

[Major-General](/source/Major-general_(United_Kingdom)) **Reginald Peregrine Harding**, (3 July 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a [British Army](/source/British_Army) officer.

## Military career

After graduating from the [Royal Military College, Sandhurst](/source/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst), Harding was commissioned into the [5th/6th Dragoons](/source/5th_Royal_Inniskilling_Dragoon_Guards) on 29 January 1925.[1] He was appointed a Companion of the [Distinguished Service Order](/source/Distinguished_Service_Order) in the [1940 Birthday Honours](/source/1940_Birthday_Honours) for his services in the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II).[2]

After the war, in October 1946, he became commander of [22nd Armoured Brigade](/source/22nd_Armoured_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)) which was re-designated [7th Armoured Brigade](/source/7th_Armoured_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)) in January 1947; he then became Commandant of the [Royal Armoured Corps Centre](/source/Royal_Armoured_Corps_Centre) at [Bovington Camp](/source/Bovington_Camp) in August 1949.[3] He went on to be General Officer Commanding [49th (West Riding) Armoured Division](/source/49th_(West_Riding)_Infantry_Division) in December 1951 and General Officer Commanding [East Anglian District](/source/54th_(East_Anglian)_Infantry_Division) in May 1955 before retiring in June 1958.[3]

He was appointed a [Companion of the Order of the Bath](/source/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath) in the [1953 Coronation Honours](/source/1953_Coronation_Honours).[4]

In 1933, as an amateur [jockey](/source/Jockey), he won the [National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup](/source/National_Hunt_Chase_Challenge_Cup) on a horse known as "Ego" which had been trained by Lieutenant Colonel [Morgan Lindsay](/source/Morgan_Lindsay).[5]

## References

1. No. 33016. 30 January 1925. p. 685.

1. No. 34893. 9 July 1940. p. 4243.

1. ["Army Commands"](https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf). Retrieved 7 June 2020.

1. No. 39863. 26 May 1953. p. 2943.

1. Oakley, Robin (2011). [*The Cheltenham Festival: A Centenary History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Jav0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT68). Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1845136369.

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