Richard Applegate | |
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Nickname | Dick |
Born | March 20, 1955 (age 58) |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army |
Years of service | 1973 - 2010 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Commands held |
19th Regiment Royal Artillery Commander Royal Artillery for 3rd Division |
Battles/wars |
Bosnian War Kosovo War Northern Ireland |
Awards |
CB Officer of the Order of the British Empire Legion of Merit (Officer Degree) Legionnaire de 1ère classe |
Other work | Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery, Chairman of fund raising for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Director Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd. |
Lieutenant General Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE (born 20 March 1955) is a former Quartermaster-General and Master-General of the Ordnance to the Army. He left the British Army in October 2010 and is now a Director of Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd.
Applegate was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.[1]
Between 1992 and 1994 he was Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three different Supreme Allied Commanders Europe[2] and then became Commanding Officer 19th Regiment Royal Artillery - The Highland Gunners.[2] After a staff appointment where he was responsible for conceptual development of the British Army,[2] he moved on to be Commander Royal Artillery for 3rd Division[2] followed by an appointment as Director of Equipment Capability.[2]
In 1995 he was deployed at short notice with his artillery regiment to Bosnia, initially under command UNPROFOR,[3] then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force[3] and finally, after the Dayton Agreement, he was assigned to the Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.[2] His artillery group based in Sarajevo and on Mount Igman provided surveillance, targeting and indirect fire in support of UNPROFOR and NATO's Operation Deliberate Force.[3] In 1999 he was Deputy Commander of the British Forces entering Kosovo.[2] In 2004 he was appointed Capability Manager for Battlefield Manoeuvre and in June 2006 he became Master-General of the Ordnance.[4]
In February 2007 he became Chief of Materiel (Land) and a Main Board member of the new Defence Equipment and Support organisation, with specific responsibility for Defence's supply chain and support to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.[5] He also became Quartermaster-General.[6] He moved on from this post in September 2009 to become a Defence Career Partner on attachment to a number of international companies in preparation to compete for the post of Chief of Defence Materiel for the UK MoD.[7]
He is also a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery and Honorary Colonel of 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery.[8]
Applegate was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2010 Birthday Honours[9] and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1996 Operational Honours List.[10] He was awarded the US Legion of Merit (Officer Degree) in 2007[11] and was made a Legionnaire de 1ère classe in 1996 for combat command of French Foreign Legion troops in Bosnia.[12] He is also a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute,[13] Fellow of the City & Guilds of London Institute[14] and an alumnus of the British Joint Higher Command and Staff Course.
References[]
- ↑ "No. 46270". 4 April 1974. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46270/page/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 UK Defence Conference
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 'Op Deliberate Force' by Tim Ripley, CDISS August 1999, ISBN 0-9536650-0-3
- ↑ "No. 58028". 27 June 2006. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58028/page/
- ↑ "No. 58252". 20 February 2007. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58252/page/ and DE&S Yearbook 2010
- ↑ "No. 58258". 1 February 2007. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58258/page/
- ↑ "No. 59191". 22 September 2009. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59191/page/
- ↑ "No. 57945". 4 April 2006. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/57945/page/
- ↑ "No. 59446". 12 June 2010. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59446/page/
- ↑ "No. 54393". 9 May 1996. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/54393/page/
- ↑ Citation dated 21st February 2007, signed by the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army
- ↑ Order of General de Division Piquemal dated 20 Avril 1996
- ↑ CMI letter of award 14 May 2010
- ↑ City &Guilds letter 11 March 2011
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