General Sir Felix Fordati Ready, (16 July 1872 – 6 April 1940) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1931 to 1935. He was considered an expert in military tactics.

Military career

Ready was the son of Colonel John Tobin Ready and the grandson of John Ready, former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Educated at Wellington College, Ready was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a

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on 5 December 1891. He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 July 1894, and was part of the Kitchener Expedition to defeat the Mahdi in Sudan 1898–99, taking part in the battles of Atbara (April 1898) and

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(September 1898).Hart′s Army list, 1903 With the 2nd battalion of his regiment, he served in South Africa during the Second Boer War 1899–1900, taking part in operations in the Orange Free State from February to July 1900 and Transvaal from July to November 1900. He returned to South Africa in 1902, as the war drew to a close, and was promoted to

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on 15 January 1902. For his service in the war he was

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, received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps. After the end of the war in June 1902, Ready and the rest of the 2nd battalion was sent to Egypt, where they arrived on the SS ''Dominion'' in November 1902. He served in World War I as Adjutant-General in Mesopotamia. He was appointed General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District in 1926 before becoming General Officer Commanding 1st Division at Aldershot in 1929 and then Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1931. He was made a general in 1934 and retired in 1935.

Personal life

In 1900, he married Marguerite Violet Daisy Cotterill. He died at his home in Kensington, London, on 6 April 1940, aged 67.

References

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