Denis Redman

Major-General Denis Arthur Kay Redman, CB, OBE (8 April 191018 July 2009) was a senior British Army officer. He was Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from 1960 to 1963 and therefore head of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He served as Colonel Commandant of REME from 1963 to 1968.

Early life Redman was born on 8 April 1910 in Rochester, Kent, England. His parents were Arthur, an officer in the Royal Engineers, and Vera Redman. He was educated at Wellington College, a private school in Crowthorne, Berkshire. His commission and rank were confirmed on 1 May 1936. From 1936, he served in the Middle East. and to major on 13 July 1941. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Middle East Command. In 1943, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General at the War Office. In 1951, he was appointed Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering for the I Corps based in Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine. In 1957, he was appointed Commandant of the REME training centre, He attended the Imperial Defence College in 1959. On 29 June 1960, he was appointed Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, therefore becoming head of REME, and made a temporary major general. He was later promoted to major general, which was backdated to 29 June 1960. He relinquished the appointment of Director on 4 July 1963.

He retired from the British Army on 1 August 1963.

Later life Following his retirement from the British Army, Redman worked at Sperry Gyroscope, an American equipment and electronics company, as a military advisor.

On 9 September 1942, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period November 1941 to April 1942'. In the 1963 New Year Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

He served in the honorary position of Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from 19 August 1963 to 19 August 1968.