Richard Ford (Royal Marines officer)

General Sir Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford, KCB, CBE (18 February 1878 – 12 April 1949) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.[1]

Sir Richard Ford
Birth nameRichard Vernon Tredinnick Ford
Born18 February 1878
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died12 April 1949(1949-04-12) (aged 71)
Folkestone, Kent, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Marines
RankGeneral
Commands heldAdjutant-General Royal Marines
Battles/warsFirst World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Military career

Born on 18 February 1878, Ford was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in 1896[2] and promoted to captain in 1903.[3] During the First World War he commanded the Royal Navy Siege Guns at Dunkirk, as Second-in-Command of the Royal Marine Heavy Brigade, and then served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, Royal Marine Forces.[4] For these services he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5]

In January 1928 Ford, by then a colonel, was made a companion of the Order of the Bath,[6] and was an aide-de-camp to the King from 1929 to 1930.[7] Appointed Adjutant-General Royal Marines in June 1930, then the highest appointment within the Royal Marines, he was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in January 1933.[8] He retired in October 1933 with the rank of General.[9]

Personal life

Ford was twice married. In 1903, he married Diana Pollard, daughter of Rear-Admiral George Northmore Arthur Pollard. After her death in 1911, he was married in 1913 to Mildred Powell Underwood, daughter of Capt. Powell Cecil Underwood, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.[1]

He died in Folkestone on 12 April 1949, aged 71.[1]

References
  1. "Obituary: General Sir Richard Ford". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 14 April 1949. p. 6.
  2. "No. 26773". The London Gazette. 1 September 1896. p. 4931.
  3. "No. 27520". The London Gazette. 30 January 1903. p. 602.
  4. "Royal Navy Medals". Naval History. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. "No. 13501". The Edinburgh Gazette. 18 September 1919. p. 3092
  6. "No. 14450". The Edinburgh Gazette. 8 June 1928. p. 655
  7. Who Was Who 1941-1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.
  8. "No. 14928". The Edinburgh Gazette. 6 January 1933. p. 9
  9. "No. 33983". The London Gazette. 3 October 1933. p. 6355.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Lewis Halliday		 Adjutant-General Royal Marines
1930–1933		 Succeeded by
Sir Richard Foster
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