Allegiance United Kingdom Died 12 April 1949 Rank General | Battles/wars First World War Battles and wars World War I Service/branch Royal Marines | |
Commands held Adjutant-General Royal Marines Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire | ||
General Sir Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford, KCB, CBE (1878 – 12 April 1949) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Military career
Ford was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery. He served as commander of the Royal Navy Siege Guns at Dunkirk, as Second-in-Command of the Royal Marine Heavy Brigade and then as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, Royal Marine Forces during the First World War. He went on to be Adjutant-General Royal Marines in June 1930 before retiring in October 1936.
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