About Matt Abraham
Lived 1919 – 2001 (aged 82). Matt Abraham was a military personnel and military leader.
Major-General Sutton Martin O’Heguerty Abraham CB MC (26 January 1919 – 15 May 2001) was a British military officer who served as Director of Combat Development at the Ministry of Defence.
Career Abraham was born to Captain Edgar Abraham, of the Indian Civil Service, and Ruth Eostre Abraham. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1939. He won two MCs within a year during operations in the Western desert in 1942. He went on to be Director of Combat Development at the Ministry of Defence in 1968 and chief of the Joint Services Liaison Organisation in the British Army of the Rhine in 1971 before retiring in 1973.
He served as Colonel of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, 1977-1981.
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Matt Abraham was born on 26 January 1919.
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Matt Abraham died on 15 May 2001.
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