Tony Hibbert (British Army officer)

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rdf:langString James Anthony Hibbert MBE MC (6 December 1917 – 12 October 2014), was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War. During a military career that began in 1935 and ended in 1947, Hibbert saw action in the Battle of France, the North African Campaign, the Italian Campaign and Operation Market Garden. After those battles, he led a T-Force unit in Operation Eclipse, a campaign carried out by the Allies shortly before V-E Day. In civilian life after his time in the army, Hibbert enlarged and diversified his family's wine and spirits business. His restless first retirement, which began in the early 1970s, was followed by a 1981 retirement attempt that led his wife and him to ownership of Cornwall's Trebah Garden, which they went on to restore to its prewar splendour. In 2009, after nearly sixty years of marriage, Hibbert became a widower. Five years later, he died peacefully at home.