Richard Vickers
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Lieutenant-General Sir Richard (Maurice Hilton) Vickers, KCB LVO OBE, a British General, was Director-General of Army Training 1982–1983.
He was born in 1928, son of Lieutenant-General W G H Vickers, CB OBE, and educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, and the Royal Military Academy.
He joined the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) in 1948, and served with the 1st RTR in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Korea, and the Middle East to 1954. He was promoted to Captain 22 December 1954.
Vickers was temporary Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen 1956–1959.
He was Brigade Major 7th Armoured Brigade 1962–64. Vickers served with the 4th RTR in Borneo and Malaysia 1964–1966, and was Commanding Officer of The Royal Dragoons 1967–1968, and The Blues and Royals 1968–1969 on the amalgamation of the two regiments. He was Commander of the 11th Armoured Brigade 1972–1974, and Deputy Director of Army Training 1975–1977.
On promotion to Major-General he was appointed GOC 4th Armoured Division 1977–1979, then Commandant of the Royal Military Academy 1979–1982. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General 30 May 1982, and retired in 1983.
He was a Gentleman Usher to the Queen from 1986, and Director-General of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1983–1993.
He was made an LVO in 1959, and MBE in 1964 (promoted to OBE in 1970), and KCB in 1983.
