Dick Applegate

Who is Dick Applegate?

Lieutenant General Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE is a former Quartermaster-General and Master-General of the Ordnance to the Army. He left the British Army in October 2010 and is now a Director of Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd.

Applegate was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.

Between 1992 and 1994 he was Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three different Supreme Allied Commanders Europe and then became Commanding Officer 19th Regiment Royal Artillery - The Highland Gunners. After a staff appointment where he was responsible for conceptual development of the British Army, he moved on to be Commander Royal Artillery for 3rd Division followed by an appointment as Director of Equipment Capability.

In 1995 he was deployed at short notice with his artillery regiment to Bosnia, initially under command UNPROFOR, then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force and finally, after the Dayton Agreement, he was assigned to the Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. His artillery group based in Sarajevo and on Mount Igman provided surveillance, targeting and indirect fire in support of UNPROFOR and NATO's Operation Deliberate Force. In 1999 he was Deputy Commander of the British Forces entering Kosovo. In 2004 he was appointed Capability Manager for Battlefield Manoeuvre and in June 2006 he became Master-General of the Ordnance.