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Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE (born 20 March 1955) is a former Quartermaster-General and

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to the Army. He left the British Army in October 2010 and is now a Director of Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd.

Military career

Applegate was commissioned into the

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in 1974. Between 1992 and 1994 he was Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three different Supreme Allied Commanders EuropeUK Defence Conference
/ref> and then became Commanding Officer 19th Regiment Royal Artillery - The Highland Gunners. After a staff appointment where he was responsible for conceptual development of the British Army, he moved on to be Commander Royal Artillery for 3rd Division followed by an appointment as Director of Equipment Capability. In 1995 he was deployed at short notice with his artillery regiment to Bosnia, initially under command

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,'Op Deliberate Force' by Tim Ripley, CDISS August 1999, then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force and finally, after the

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, he was assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. His artillery group based in

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and on Mount Igman provided surveillance, targeting and indirect fire in support of UNPROFOR and

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Operation Deliberate Force Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in concert with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the ...

. In 1999 he was Deputy Commander of the British Forces entering

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

. In 2004 he was appointed Capability Manager for Battlefield Manoeuvre and in June 2006 he became

. In February 2007 he became Chief of Materiel (Land) and a Main Board member of the new

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organisation, with specific responsibility for Defence's supply chain and support to operations in

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and

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. He also became Quartermaster-General. He moved on from this post in September 2009 to become a ''Defence Career Partner'' on attachment to a number of international companies in preparation to compete for the post of Chief of Defence Materiel for the UK MoD. He is also a Colonel Commandant of the

and Honorary Colonel of 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery. Applegate was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2010 Birthday Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1996 Operational Honours List. He was awarded the US Legion of Merit (Officer Degree) in 2007 and was made a ''Legionnaire de 1ère classe'' in 1996 for combat command of Foreign Legion troops in Bosnia. He is also a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, Fellow of the City & Guilds of London InstituteCity &Guilds letter 11 March 2011 and an alumnus of the British Joint Higher Command and Staff Course.

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