Richard Craddock

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Walter Craddock KBE CB DSO (1910–1977) was a British Army general who achieved high office in the 1960s.

Military career
Educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Richard Craddock was commissioned into the Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) in 1930.

He served in World War II initially in France; he was a member of the Prime Minister's delegation to Washington, D.C., Quebec and Cairo in 1943. In 1944 he became Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn South Wales Borderers in North West Europe, in which capacity he earned a DSO, before moving on to be Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Suffolk Regiment in North West Europe later that year. He was wounded in action several times losing his foot and part of his leg.

After the War he became Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1949 moving on to be Director of Plans at the War Office in 1951.

He was appointed Major General in charge of Administration for the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in West Germany in 1957 and became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1959. He served as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1963 to 1964 when he became GOC Western Command; he retired in 1966.