Ronald Urquhart

Major General Ronald Walton Urquhart CB DSO (26 March 1906 – 19 April 1968) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Ronald Urquhart
Born26 March 1906
Died19 April 1968 (aged 62)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1925-1960
RankMajor General
Commands held35th Infantry Brigade
RMA Sandhurst
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsCB, DSO

Military career

Born on 26 March 1906, Ronald Urquhart was educated at Bedford School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1925.[2] In the Second World War he served in Norway and North West Europe,[2] being awarded the DSO for his services in Normandy.[3] After the War he became Director of Combined Operations and then, from 1953, Commander of 35th Infantry Brigade.[2] He went on to be Chief of Staff at Western Command in 1956 and Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst between 1957 and 1960.[2]

Major General Ronald Urquhart retired from the British Army in 1960. He died on 19 April 1968.

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References
  1. URQUHART, Major-General Ronald Walton : Who's Who
  2. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. "No. 36679". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 August 1944. p. 4044.
Military offices
Preceded by
Reginald Hobbs		 Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
1957–1960		 Succeeded by
George Gordon-Lennox
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