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Martin Farndale

General

Sir Martin Farndale

KCB
Born(1929-01-06)6 January 1929
Died10 May 2000(2000-05-10) (aged 71)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Service years
1948–1987
Rank
General
Service number397237
CommandsBritish Army of the Rhine
1st British Corps
2nd Armoured Division
7th Armoured Brigade
1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Conflicts
The Troubles
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

General Sir Martin Baker Farndale, KCB (6 January 1929 – 10 May 2000) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1980s.

Military career

Educated at Yorebridge Grammar School, Askrigg, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Farndale was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in November 1948.[1][2] He went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1959.[2]

In 1969 Farndale was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which was deployed to Northern Ireland at the early stages of The Troubles.[2] In 1973 he was appointed commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade in Germany before, in 1978, he returned to the UK to become Director of Operations at the Ministry of Defence in which role he had to organise the disarming of guerillas in order to facilitate the creation of the future nation of Zimbabwe.[2] He was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2nd Armoured Division in Germany in 1980.[2]

In 1983, Farndale became GOC of 1st British Corps.[2] In 1985, he was made GOC of British Army of the Rhine and Northern Army Group.[2] He was also Colonel Commandant of the Army Air Corps from 1980 to 1987.[3]

Following his retirement at the end of December 1987, Farndale was a defence adviser to Short Brothers plc and to Deloitte Touche[3] and wrote four volumes of the History of the Royal Artillery.[2]

Family

In 1955 Farndale married Margaret Anne Buckingham.[2] They had one son.[4]

References

  1. ^ "No. 38465". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 November 1948. p. 6180.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Hickey, Michael (2004). "Farndale, Sir Martin Baker (1929–2000), army officer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74139. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b "General Sir Martin Farndale". The Guardian. 17 May 2000.
  4. ^ Obituary: Sir Martin Farndale The Times, 15 May 2000

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