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Anthony Raper
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1970–2006
RankMajor-General
Battles/warsBosnian War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Major-General Anthony John Raper CB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career

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Educated at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College,[1] and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,[2] Raper was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1970.[3] He subsequently undertook an army-funded in-service degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1974.[2] He was deployed to Bosnia, where he provided communications support for the Implementation Force (IFOR) in 1995.[2]

In 1998 he was appointed chief executive of the Defence Communications Services Agency.[4]

In 2001 he moved to the Defence Logistics Organisation, where he became director-general for strategy & logistic development: then in 2002 he was promoted to Defence Logistics Transformation Team leader as well as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.[5] He retired in 2006.[6]

He was also colonel commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Welbeck College Entries" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  • ^ a b c AFSEA Europe
  • ^ "No. 45182". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 September 1970. p. 9684.
  • ^ "No. 55077". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 March 1998. p. 3395.
  • ^ "No. 56811". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 January 2003. p. 119.
  • ^ "No. 57952". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 April 2006. p. 5070.
  • ^ "No. 56655". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 August 2002. p. 9431.
  • Military offices
    Preceded by

    David Judd

    Quartermaster-General to the Forces
    2002–2006
    Succeeded by

    Timothy Tyler


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