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 Anderson (British Army officer) the service. In retirement, he served as Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment, an honorary appointment received 3 March 1894. On 18 November 1863, Anderson married his cousin Charlotte, second daughter of David Anderson of St Germains, Haddingtonshire, and had five children, Lt-Gen Sir Warren Hastings, Admiral Sir David Murray, Charlotte Mary, Eleanor Florence and Violet Ann. The sons both married but there were no grandchildren. David Anderson (British Army officer) General David Anderson (12 August 1821 – 7 October 1909) was a British Army officer who became the last Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before the post was