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Sir Antony Ernest Wentworth Harman (21 April 1872 – 26 September 1961) was an Anglo-Irish

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officer who commanded 1st Division.

Military career

Harman was commissioned into the Limerick City Artillery (Southern Division) in 1891 before transferring to the

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in January 1894.Notes on the family of Ronayne or Ronan of Counties Cork and Waterford
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on 1 April 1900, and seconded to serve with the Army Service Corps. In May 1902 he was temporary appointed a Staff captain. He served in the

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joining the British Expeditionary Force and taking part in the

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in 1914 before becoming Commandant of the Cavalry School at

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.Sir (Antony Ernest) Wentworth Harman
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He was appointed Commandant of the 1st Cavalry Brigade in 1920, Colonel in charge of Administration at Northern Command in 1924 and Commandant of the Equitation School and Inspector of Cavalry in 1926. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 1st Division at

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in 1930 before retiring in 1934. He was also Colonel of the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards).Queen's Bays - Succession of Colonels and Commanding Officers
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Churchyard in

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.Monumental Inscriptions of Marhull
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Family

In 1902 he married Dorothy Ricardo; they had two daughters and a son (General Sir Jack Harman).

References

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