Tony Raper


Tony Raper

Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Service years
1970–2006
Rank
Major General
Conflicts
Bosnian War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Major General Anthony John Raper CB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career

Educated at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College,[1] and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,[2] Raper was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1970.[3] He subsequently undertook an army-funded in-service degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1974.[2] He was deployed to Bosnia, where he provided communications support for the Implementation Force (IFOR) in 1995.[2]

In 1998 he was appointed chief executive of the Defence Communications Services Agency.[4]

In 2001 he moved to the Defence Logistics Organisation, where he became director-general for strategy & logistic development: then in 2002 he was promoted to Defence Logistics Transformation Team leader as well as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.[5] He retired in 2006.[6]

He was also colonel commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Welbeck College Entries" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c AFSEA Europe
  3. ^ "No. 45182". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 September 1970. p. 9684.
  4. ^ "No. 55077". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 March 1998. p. 3395.
  5. ^ "No. 56811". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 January 2003. p. 119.
  6. ^ "No. 57952". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 April 2006. p. 5070.
  7. ^ "No. 56655". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 August 2002. p. 9431.

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