Sir Richard Bradshaw KBE | |
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Nickname | Dick |
Born | 1 August 1920 |
Died | 12 October 1999 | (aged 79)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army |
Years of service | 1946 - 1981 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
Service number | 371807 |
Commands held |
Commandant RAMC Training Centre Director General Army Medical Services |
Battles/wars |
Mau Mau Uprising Cold War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) |
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Phillip Bradshaw, KBE (1 August 1920 - 12 October 1999) was a senior British Army officer and doctor. He served as Director General Army Medical Services from 1977 to 1981.[1]
Early life[]
Bradshaw was born on 1 August 1920.[2] He was educated at Newport High School, a comprehensive school in Newport, Wales.[2] He studied medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School,[3] graduating in 1945.[2]
Military career[]
Bradshaw was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, on 9 November 1946 as a lieutenant.[4] He was promoted to captain on 9 November 1947.[5] On the 24 November 1948, he transferred from an emergency commission to a short service commission.[6] He spent his early career working in pathology in various United Kingdom based military hospitals and had one short, overseas posting to Sri Lanka.[2] In 1950, he began a two year posting to the War Office where he worked on laboratory policy.[2] On 26 July 1951, he transferred to a regular commission.[7] In 1952, he began the senior officers' course at the Royal Army Medical College, London.[2] He then qualified as a specialist in pathology.[2] He was promoted to major on 9 November 1954.[8]
In 1954, during the Mau Mau Uprising, he was posted to the East Africa Command as a pathologist. During the posting he was also commander of the British military hospital in Nairobi.[2] In 1959, he was posted to Washington, D.C. as an exchange officer. There he worked at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 9 November 1961.[9] From 1963 to 1966, he served as a research pathologist at the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton Down.[2] In 1966, he was posted to the Head Quarters of the British Army of the Rhine as Assistant Director of Pathology.[2] On 9 November 1969, he was promoted to colonel.[10] From 1969 to 1971, he was Professor of Pathology at the Royal Army Medical College.[1]
Following his professorship, his career turned towards command and administration.[2] He served as Commanding Officer of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot Garrison from 1971 to 1973.[1] On 1 June 1973, he was promoted to brigadier.[11] From 1973 to 1975, he was Commandant of the RAMC Training Centre.[2] He was once more posted to West Germany when, on 6 July 1975, he was appointed Director of Medical Services, British Army of the Rhine and made an acting major general.[12] He was promoted to major general on 26 September 1975.[13] On 30 March 1977, he was appointed Director General Army Medical Services and promoted to lieutenant-general.[14] In the 1977 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).[15]
On 7 April 1981, he retired from the British Army.[16]
Later life[]
Following his retirement from the military, Bradshaw served on a number of management committees of philanthropic and charitable organisations.[2] His hobbies included bird watching and gardening.[2]
He died on 12 October 1999.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "BRADSHAW, Sir Richard Phillip (born 1920), Lieutenant General". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. King's College London. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BRADSHAW.shtml. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 "Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw". 20 October 1999. p. 23.
- ↑ "Court Circular". 7 October 1977. p. 16.
- ↑ "No. 37823". 17 December 1946. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37823/page/
- ↑ "No. 38156". 23 December 1947. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38156/page/
- ↑ "No. 38478". 10 December 1948. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38478/page/
- ↑ "No. 39318". 14 August 1951. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39318/page/
- ↑ "No. 40341". 30 November 1954. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40341/page/
- ↑ "No. 42508". 7 November 1961. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42508/page/
- ↑ "No. 44966". 14 November 1969. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44966/page/
- ↑ "No. 45997". 4 June 1973. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45997/page/
- ↑ "No. 46626". 8 July 1975. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46626/page/
- ↑ "No. 46698". 30 September 1975. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46698/page/
- ↑ "No. 47189". 4 April 1977. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47189/page/
- ↑ "No. 47234". 10 June 1977. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47234/page/
- ↑ "No. 48606". 11 May 1981. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48606/page/
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