Nigel Tapp

Major-General Sir Nigel Prior Hanson Tapp KBE CB DSO (1904–1991) was General Officer Commanding East Africa Command of the British Army.

Military career He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel James William Hanson Tapp of the Royal Artillery and his wife Winefred Grace Molesworth, daughter of Anthony Oliver Molesworth of the Royal Artillery. Educated at Bedford School, Nigel Tapp was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1924. He served in the Sudan Defence Force from 1932 to 1938. He then became Commander Royal Artillery for 25th Division in 1945.

After the War he became District Commander for Eritrea in 1946 and then deputy director of Land/Air Warfare at the War Office in 1948. He was made deputy director, Royal Artillery in 1949. He became Commander, Royal Artillery, for 1st (British) Corps in 1951 and General Officer Commanding 2nd Anti Aircraft Group in 1954. He was Director of Military Training at the War Office from 1955 to 1957 when he became General Officer Commanding East Africa Command; he retired in 1961.