British Army General. He was educated at St. Bees School, Cumberland. In June 1941 he enlisted in the British Army and served in ranks of the Scots Guards and by 1942 he had attained the rank of Lance Corporal. After attending the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, India, he was commissioned into 7th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army on 26 November 1942. He served with them from 1943 until 1944, then in Burma in 1945. Following the war, he returned to England and was transferred from the Indian Army to the 2nd Battalion Border Regiment in 1945, as a Regular officer. After service in Malaya with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, from 1948 to 1951 he graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and became the Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion the King's Own Royal Border Regiment. In July 1967 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and had been appointed commander of 19th Infantry Brigade. In 1970 he was promoted to the rank of Major General and appointed Chief of Staff Headquarters Southern Command, followed tow years later as Chief of Staff at Headquarters UK Land Forces. Later in 1972 he became Director of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defense. In 1975 he was promoted to Vice Chief of the General Staff at the Ministry of Defense in Whitehall in the rank of Lieutenant General. In 1976 he became Colonel Commandant of the Army Physical Training Corps at Aldershot and in September 1978 was promoted to the rank of General, as Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, a role he held until October 1980. During his military career, he was awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, the Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and the Military Cross. He died 4 days shy of his 59th birthday and was interred at the Aldershot Military Cemetery. A cenotaph in his honor resides in the Kings Own Border Regiment Chapel of the Carlisle Cathedral in Carlisle, Cumbria, England.