Andrew Becher
{{Short description|British Army officer (1858–1929)}}
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|name=Andrew Becher
|birth_date=26 August 1858
|birth_place= Brighton, Sussex
|death_date=11 May 1929
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
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|rank= Major-General
|branch= British Army
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|commands=2nd Lothian Volunteer Infantry Brigade
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63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division
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|battles=First World War
|awards=Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Major-General Andrew Cracroft Becher {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE}} (26 August 1858 – 11 May 1929) was a senior British Army officer.
Military career
Educated at Rugby School, Becher was commissioned into the Royal Scots on 30 January 1878.{{London Gazette|issue=24547|page=458|date=29 January 1878}} After service with the Norfolk Regiment in South Africa, he became commander of the 2nd Lothian Volunteer Infantry Brigade in March 1907{{cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/268005|title=Major-General Andrew Cracroft Becher|publisher=Imperial War Museum|accessdate=26 June 2020}} and commander of the Durham Light Infantry Brigade in 1908.{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf|title=Army Commands|accessdate=20 June 2020}} He went on to be General Officer Commanding 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division in 1914 and commander of the Southern Command Depot in Sutton Coldfield in 1916.{{cite web|url=https://www.badseysociety.uk/sladden-archive/people/730|title=Andrew Cracroft Becher|publisher=Badsey Society|accessdate=26 June 2020}}
Family
In 1883 he married Frances Maude Johnson; they had one son and two daughters. Following the death of his first wife he married Elisabeth Dalyell Stewart in 1907; they had three sons.
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Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Category:British Army major generals
Category:Military personnel from Brighton
Category:British Army generals of World War I
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire