Years of service 1946–1982 Rank Lieutenant-general Name Robin Carnegie | Died January 1, 2011 Allegiance United Kingdom | |
Commands held The Queen's Own Hussars11th Armoured Brigade3rd Division Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire | ||
Lieutenant General Sir Robin Macdonald Carnegie KCB OBE DL (22 June 1926 – 1 January 2011) was a senior British Army officer who became Military Secretary. He died peacefully in Salisbury Hospice.
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Military career
Educated at Rugby School, Carnegie was commissioned into the 7th Hussars in 1946. He was made Commanding Officer of the The Queen's Own Hussars in 1967. He went on to be Commander of 11th Armoured Brigade in 1971 and General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1974. He became Chief of Staff at Headquarters British Army of the Rhine in 1976 and Military Secretary in 1978. He went on to be Director-General of Army Training in 1981.
He was also Colonel of the Queen's Own Hussars.
Family
In 1955 he married Iona Sinclair, and then went on to have one son and two daughters and five grandchildren.