Cedric Delves

Lieutenant General Sir Cedric Norman George Delves KBE DSO (born 1947) is a former British Army general.

Early life
Delves was born in 1947 and educated at Woolverstone Hall School.

Military career
Delves was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1968. Having been promoted to Captain he undertook tours in Northern Ireland for which he was Mentioned in Despatches in 1979 and again in 1981.

Major Cedric Delves distinguished himself on 21 April 1982 when, as Officer Commanding D Squadron 22 SAS, he captured Grytviken on South Georgia without a single loss of life, on 15 May 1982 when his squadron destroyed eleven Argentine aircraft at Pebble Island, on 21 May 1982 when he led a deceptive raid on Darwin, and again on 31 May 1982 at Mount Kent in the Falkland Islands where he took his squadron 40 miles behind enemy lines and secured a firm hold on the area allowing conventional forces to be brought in. He was Commanding Officer of 22 SAS in 1988 when British Special Forces carried out the Death on the Rock operation which resulted in the death of three IRA bombers in Gibraltar. In 1993 he was appointed Director Special Forces and by December 1995, as a Brigadier, he was leading Special Operations in Bosnia as Commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF), a component of the Implementation Force (IFOR).

He was made General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Division in 1996 in which role he was deployed to Bosnia in January 1998 as Commander of Multi-National Division (South-West).

By 1999 he was Chief of Joint Forces Operational Readiness and Training. He became Deputy Commander-in-Chief at Land Command (subsequently retitled 'Commander Field Army') in the rank of Lieutenant General in December 2000. This was just prior to the Invasion of Iraq and went on to be Deputy Commander at NATO HQ Allied Forces North at Brunssum in September 2003. In December 2003 he lost a leg when he was crushed against a wall by a drunk driver in Maastricht in the Netherlands and was subsequently discharged from the British Army.

Later life
In retirement, Delves became a Director of Olive Group, a security business. He became Lieutenant of the Tower of London in March 2007. He was succeeded by Lieutenant-General Peter Pearson on 4 May 2010.

Honours and decorations
Delves was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 11 October 1982 "in recognition of distinguished service during the operations in the South Atlantic", appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in June 1990 and promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in June 2003.

Family
He is married to Suzy.