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Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Walter Craddock KBE CB DSO (1910–1977) was a senior officer of the British Army who achieved high office in the 1960s. ==Military career== Educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,〔(Queen's Royal Surreys )〕 Richard Craddock was commissioned into the Royal East Kent Regiment (Buffs) in 1930.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in the Second World War, initially in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the Battle of France;〔 in 1943 he was a member of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill's delegation to Washington, D.C., Quebec, and Cairo.〔 In 1944 he became Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, fighting in North West Europe, in which capacity he earned a DSO, before moving on to be Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, which was also serving in North West Europe, later that year.〔 He was wounded in action several times, losing one foot and part of a leg.〔 After the War he remained in the Army and in 1949 became Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, moving on to a posting as 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Craddock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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