Sir Derek Boorman | |
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Born | 30 September 1930 |
Allegiance |
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Service/branch |
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Rank | Lieutenant-General |
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) was a senior British Army officer.
Military career[]
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 Commander of 51st Brigade in Hong 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]
Retirement[]
In October 1992 he was appointed a Member of the Government's Security Commission[10] and in 1996 he accused Government Ministers of being untruthful in their evidence to the Arms to Iraq Inquiry.[11] He retired from the Security Commission in 1998.[12]
In 1994 he became Chairman of the Royal Hospitals Trust - a post he held until 1998.[13] Then in 2000 he became a Deputy Pro-Chancellor of the University of Kent.[14]
References[]
- ↑ Debrett's People of Today 1994
- ↑ "No. 39017". 15 September 1950. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39017/page/
- ↑ 6th Gurkhas History 1977-1994
- ↑ "No. 48108". 25 February 1980. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48108/page/
- ↑ "No. 49156". 1 November 1982. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49156/page/
- ↑ "No. 50279". 7 October 1985. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/50279/page/
- ↑ Obituary: Sir Antony Duff The Guardian, 18 August 2000
- ↑ "No. 51543". 28 November 1988. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/51543/page/
- ↑ "No. 49344". 9 May 1983. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49344/page/
- ↑ MI5 / MI6 History
- ↑ Intelligence chief accuses ministers over Scott report The Independent, 10 February 1996
- ↑ Butlerslossed
- ↑ Bats, the General and the Fat Controller British Medical Journal, 1995
- ↑ University of Kent
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