Died 1969 Rank General Allegiance United Kingdom Commands held Royal Marines | Service/branch Royal Marines Name Malcolm Cartwright-Taylor Years of service 1930–1965 | |
General Sir Malcolm Cartwright Cartwright-Taylor, KCB (1911–1969) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1962 to 1965.
Military career
Cartwright-Taylor was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1930 and served in the Second World War in the battleship HMS Renown, at the Royal Marines Depot at Exton and at Headquarters, 117th Infantry Brigade. He was appointed Fleet Royal Marines Officer for the South Atlantic Fleet in 1950, Major General Royal Marines at Plymouth in 1959 and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1962. In that role he deployed 2,000 Royal Marines to Malaysia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation before retiring in 1965.
In retirement he became a member of the Membership Arbitration Panel of the Association of British Travel Agents.