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Derek Boorman

Lieutenant-General Sir Derek Boorman KCB
Born	(1930-09-30) 30 September 1930 (age 93)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1950−1988
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Service number	411897
Unit	North Staffordshire Regiment
Commands held	51st Brigade Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Derek Boorman KCB (born 30 September 1930) is a retired former senior British Army officer.

Military career[edit]

Educated at Wolstanton Grammar School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,^[1] Boorman was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1950.^[2] He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at Headquarters 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade and subsequently Commanderof51st BrigadeinHong Kong.^[3]

He was appointed Director of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in 1980^[4] and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1982.^[5] He went on to be Chief of Defence Intelligence in 1985:^[6] in that capacity he took the view that the Mikhail Gorbachev's proposals for internal reform and deep cuts in missile stocks were genuine.^[7] He retired from the British Army in 1988.^[8]

He was also Colonel of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles from 1983 to 1988^[9] and Colonel of the Staffordshire Regiment from 1985 to 1990.^[10]

Retirement[edit]

In October 1992 he was appointed a Member of the Government's Security Commission^[11] and in 1996 he accused Government Ministers of being untruthful in their evidence to the Arms to Iraq Inquiry.^[12] He retired from the Security Commission in 1998.^[13]

In 1994 he became Chairman of the Royal Hospitals Trust – a post he held until 1998.^[14] Then in 2000 he became a Deputy Pro-Chancellor of the University of Kent.^[15]

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