Patrick Howard-Dobson

GCB (12 August 1921 – 8 November 2009) was a senior British Army officer and Quartermaster-General to the Forces

Italian Front. He again saw action during the fourth and final Battle of Monte Cassino, and later, while attached to Lieutenant General Władysław Anders's Polish II Corps, at the Battle of Ancona, the fighting on the Gothic Line and, in April 1945, at the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, which brought an end to the war in Italy. For his distinguished services in the war he was awarded the Italian Virtuti Militari and the US Silver Star.^[2]

20th Armoured Brigade, then serving in Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine. Following this appointment, he returned to England to attend the Imperial Defence College (now the Royal College of Defence Studies, usually only for officers who were destined to become high-flyers).^[1] In 1968 he became the last Chief of Staff at British Far East Command in Singapore. He was Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley from 1972, Military Secretary from 1974 and then Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1977.^[2] In 1979 he was made Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel & Logistics). He retired in 1981.^[2]