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Hardback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is innear fine condition. General Sir Cecil Hugh Blacker GCB, OBE, MC (4 June 1916 - 18 October 2002) was a senior British Army officer and a forme…r Adjutant-General to the Forces. Educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cecil Blacker was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1936. He was adjutant of the Regiment during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. He later transferred to the 23rd Hussars which then formed part of 11th Armoured Division. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944 following Operation Goodwood and went on to become Commanding Officer of the 23rd Hussars in 1945. Blacker was an Amateur Steeplechaser and International Showjumper. He rode in the 1948 Grand National. He rode Pointsman to win the Grand Military Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1954. He represented Great Britain in Showjumping from 1959 to 1961. He was President both of the British Showjumping Association from 1976 to 1980 and of the British Equestrian Federation from 1980 to 1984. He was a member of the Horse Race Betting Levy Board from 1980 to 1983. Ref TT6.
