Temple Gurdon (British Army officer)
Edward Temple Leigh Gurdon was a British Army officer.Military career
Gurdon was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade on 12 May 1915 during the First World War. He served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the Black Watch from 1940, as commander of the 25th Infantry Brigade from January 1941 and as Brigadier on the General Staff at Eastern Command in India in August 1942 before becoming Director of Military Training at Army Headquarters India in April 1943. After the war he became General Officer Commanding the 49th Infantry Division in September 1945 and General Officer Commanding, Salisbury Plain District in January 1947 before retiring in October 1948.
