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Richard Friedrich Patrick Felton, is a former

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officer who served as Director-General of the

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from 2017 to 2019.

Military career

Felton was commissioned into the

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on 6 September 1985. He became Commanding Officer of 9 Regiment

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in April 2004, Chief of Staff of 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division in April 2007 and Commander of 4th Mechanized Brigade in January 2009. It was in this role that he was deployed as Commander of

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in April 2010. He went on to be Chief of Joint Forces Operations at Joint Forces Headquarters in March 2011 and Commander of

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in March 2014. He became Director-General of the

in April 2017.

References

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