Richard Ford (Royal Marines officer)

Senior Royal Marines Officer

Sir Richard Ford

Birth name| Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford
Born| 18 February 1878
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died| 12 April 1949(1949-04-12) (aged 71)
Folkestone, Kent, England
Allegiance| United Kingdom
Service/branch| Royal Marines
Rank| General
Commands held| Adjutant-General Royal Marines
Battles/wars| First World War
Awards| Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

General Sir Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford, KCB, CBE (18 February 1878 – 12 April 1949) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.[1]

## Military career[edit]

Born on 18 February 1878, Ford was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in 1896[2] and promoted to captain in 1903.[3] During the First World War he commanded the Royal Navy Siege Guns at Dunkirk, as Second-in-Command of the Royal Marine Heavy Brigade, and then served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, Royal Marine Forces.[4] For these services he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5]

In January 1928 Ford, by then a colonel, was made a companion of the Order of the Bath,[6] and was an aide-de-camp to the King from 1929 to 1930.[7] Appointed Adjutant-General Royal Marines in June 1930, then the highest appointment within the Royal Marines, he was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in January 1933.[8] He retired in October 1933 with the rank of General.[9]

## Personal life[edit]

Ford was twice married. In 1903, he married Diana Pollard, daughter of Rear-Admiral George Northmore Arthur Pollard. After her death in 1911, he was married in 1913 to Mildred Powell Underwood, daughter of Capt. Powell Cecil Underwood, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.[1]

He died in Folkestone on 12 April 1949, aged 71.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Obituary: General Sir Richard Ford". The Times. 14 April 1949. p. 6.
2. ^ "No. 26773". The London Gazette. 1 September 1896. p. 4931.
3. ^ "No. 27520". The London Gazette. 30 January 1903. p. 602.
4. ^ "Royal Navy Medals". Naval History. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
5. ^ "No. 13501". The Edinburgh Gazette. 18 September 1919. p. 3092
6. ^ "No. 14450". The Edinburgh Gazette. 8 June 1928. p. 655
7. ^ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.
8. ^ "No. 14928". The Edinburgh Gazette. 6 January 1933. p. 9
9. ^ "No. 33983". The London Gazette. 3 October 1933. p. 6355.

## External links[edit]

* Photograph of Sir Richard Ford held by the National Portrait Gallery, London

Military offices

Preceded by

Sir Lewis Halliday

|  Adjutant-General Royal Marines
1930–1933  | Succeeded by

Sir Richard Foster