Colonel Blimp Colonel Blimp Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London "Evening Standard" in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!". Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp. Blimp issues proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane
David Dundas (British Army officer) graceful nor as polished as some of his contemporaries, but he was as sound as oak and utterly reliable". In 1807 he married Charlotte De Lancey, daughter of General Oliver De Lancey; they had no children. David Dundas (British Army officer) General Sir David Dundas (1735 – 18 February 1820) was a British Army officer who fought in the Seven Years' War and French Revolutionary Wars, wrote important texts on the "Principles of Military Movements" and then served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1809 to 1811. Born the son of Robert Dundas, a Scottish merchant, and Margaret Dundas (née