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 Egerton (British Army officer) (born 1955). David Egerton (British Army officer) Major General Sir David Boswell Egerton, 16th Baronet, (24 July 1914 – 17 November 2010) was a British Army officer from the aristocratic Egerton family. Egerton's immediate family was a cadet branch of the ancient and noble Egerton family seated at Oulton since the Middle Ages. His father, Wion de Malpas Egerton, was born in the Punjab in 1879 and joined the Royal Navy, receiving the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 and later being appointed vice admiral. Admiral Egerton died in 1943 whilst his mother Anita, only daughter of Major Albert Rudolph David,