Richard Hull
Field Marshal Sir Richard Amyatt Hull, (7 May 1907 – 17 September 1989) was a senior
British Army officer. He was the last
Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), holding the post from 1961 to 1964, and the first
Chief of the General Staff (CGS), holding that post until 1965, and, as such, was the professional head of the British Army. He later became
Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) from 1965 to 1967, the professional head of the entire
British Armed Forces. He served with distinction during the
Second World War, fighting from 1942 to 1945 in
North Africa,
Italy and
Western Europe, became the youngest divisional commander in the British Army, and, after the war was over, he advised the
British government on the response to the
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the 1960s.
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