Anthony Boam

Major-General Thomas Anthony Boam CB CBE (born 1932) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.

Military career
Boam was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1952. He was deployed to Northern Ireland and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services there in 1973.

In 1981 he was appointed Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington D.C. and in 1985 he was appointed Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong and in that capacity hosted a visit by Princess Margaret. He retired in 1987.

He lives in Pulborough in West Sussex.