Richard Trant
Sir Richard Trant | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Richard Brooking Trant |
| Nickname(s) | "Dick" |
| Born | 30 March 1928 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
| Other work | Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea Chairman of the Cornwall Heritage Trust Chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Historic Society President of the Royal Cornwall Show |
DL (30 March 1928 – 3 October 2007) was an officer in the British Army. He was Land Deputy Commander in the Falklands War, and served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces
from 1983 to 1986.
Military career
Trant was born in
anti-aircraft units in the United Kingdom.[1] He joined the 32nd Medium Regiment in Hong Kong in 1952, and served in the Korean War with 74th Medium Battery in 1953.[1]
He returned to Europe in 1957, joining A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) of the
Joint Services Staff College.[1] He commanded C Battery of 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, and then became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley.[1] He took command of 3RHA, and after another year at Camberley as Colonel GS of the Staff College Division, he became commander of the 5th Airportable Brigade in 1972, when the unit was temporarily sent to Northern Ireland, to reinforce British forces at the height of the Troubles.[1]
He was Deputy Military Secretary in the
Major General and appointed Command Land Forces in Northern Ireland, Operation Banner, in 1977.[1] He was appointed CB in 1979. Earl Mountbatten of Burma was killed just after Trant left to become Director Army Staff Duties in the Ministry of Defence.[1] During this period, the Army, in common with the other British armed forces, faced significant cuts in funding following the Defence Review conducted by Secretary of State for Defence John Nott in 1981.[1]
He was promoted to
John Fieldhouse, based at Northwood
, when Moore flew south to become overall commander of British land forces in theatre. He was advanced to KCB in 1982.
Promoted to
Full General, Trant became Quartermaster-General in 1983, succeeding Sir Paul Travers, and joined the Army Board.[1]
He became a
Hunting Engineering and Wilson Hogg Robinson.[1]
He was vice-president of the Defence Manufacturers' Association from 1989 to 1996.
He was
Cornish bard, Chairman of the Cornwall Heritage Trust for 14 years, chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Historic Society, Patron of St Bartholomew's church in Lostwithiel, and president of the Royal Cornwall Show in 2004.[2]
Trant married, Diana Clare Edwards (known as "Tink"), in 1957. They had a son and two daughters. He was survived by his wife and their three children.[2]
