Jeremy Blacker

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Sir Anthony Stephen Jeremy Blacker , KCB , CBE (born May 6, 1939 in Singapore ; † March 17, 2005 ) was a British officer in the British Army , who last served as General from 1991 to 1995 Quartermaster-General to the Forces ) and was Master-General of Ordnance between 1966 and 1971 .

Life

Training and uses as an officer

Anthony Stephen Jeremy Blacker, son of Kenneth A. Blacker, began officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) after attending the Sherborne School, founded in 1550 . Once finished, he was on 25 July 1959 as a lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Royal Tank Regiment adopted. He also holds a mechanical engineering degree at Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts finished (BA). In the following years he was employed as an officer in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Tank Regiment, equipped with battle tanks of the A34 Comet cruiser tank type and later Centurion , in Hong Kong , Germany , the Aden colony and Bahrain . After his return in 1968 he became an instructor at the Royal Armored Corps Signal School in Bovington and then completed the course for technical officers at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham and then the course for staff officers at Staff College Camberley .

Blacker then served as an officer in the Department of Defense's Military Operations Department and returned to the Royal Tank Regiment in 1974 , where he was in command of a tank squadron in Omagh during the Northern Ireland conflict . In 1976 he was a member of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, UNFICYP ( United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ) . On his return he was in 1976 for Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel) transported and Military Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General William Scotter or in early 1978 by his successor, Lieutenant General John Wilfred Stanier . In 1979 he was transferred back to Germany, where he commander ( Commanding Officer ) of having Spähpanzern type FV101 Scorpion and FV107 Scimitar equipped 1st Battalion of the Royal Tank Regiment was. After his promotion to Colonel (Colonel) , he was in 1981 director of studies at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham.

Promotion to general

In December 1982, Jeremy Blacker was again transferred to Germany, where he is now as Brigadier (Brigadier) between December 1982 and November 1984 commander of the British Army of the Rhine BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) belonging to the 11th Armored Brigade (11th Armored Brigade) was. After that, he served from April 1985 to September 1987 first staff officer to the Chief of the Defense Staff (Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defense Staff ) , Field Marshal Edwin Bramall , respectively in November 1985 by his successor, Admiral of the Fleet John Fieldhouse . During this time he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on June 13, 1987 . After his promotion to Major General (Major-General) , he was in October 1987, Commander of the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham and remained in that capacity until March 1989. At the same time, he was on 31 October 1987 succeeded General Richard Vincent in volunteering as a Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers . At the same time he took over on June 1, 1988 from Major General Richard Martyn Jerram the honorary post as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment .

In April 1989, Major General Blacker returned to the Ministry of Defense, where he was Assistant Chief of the Defense Staff (Operational Requirements, Land)) until September 1991 . He was last in October 1991 as a lieutenant general (Lieutenant General) successor General John Stibbon as Master General of the Ordnance . He was responsible for artillery, engineering troops, fortifications, military supplies, transport and field hospitals and remained in this position until his retirement in April 1995, whereupon Lieutenant General Robert Hayman-Joyce was his successor. On December 31, 1991 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". In April 1995 he became a General in retirement and served between 1993 and 1995 also as Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Armored Corps and from 1997 to 2004 as Honorary Colonel (Honorary Colonel) of the Royal Yeomanry and Westminster Dragoons .

His marriage to Julia Mary Trew in 1973 resulted in two daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41826, HMSO, London, 23 September 1959, p. 6045 ( PDF , accessed on 13 January 2019, English).
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 260
  3. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 14
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 50948, HMSO, London, June 12, 1987, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed January 13, 2019, English).
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 315
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 51121, HMSO, London, November 16, 1987, p. 14133 ( PDF , accessed January 13, 2019, English).
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 51357, HMSO, London, June 6, 1988, p. 6620 ( PDF , accessed January 13, 2019, English).
  8. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 13
  9. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 11
  10. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
personal data
SURNAME Blacker, Jeremy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blacker, Sir Anthony Stephen Jeremy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2005