Dick Applegate

Lieutenant General Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE (born 20 March 1955) is a former Quartermaster-General and Master-General of the Ordnance to the Army. He left the British Army in October 2010.

Military career Applegate was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.

Between 1992 and 1994 he was Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three different Supreme Allied Commanders Europe and then became Commanding Officer 19th Regiment Royal Artillery – The Highland Gunners. then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force

In February 2007 he became Chief of Materiel (Land) and a Main Board member of the new Defence Equipment and Support organisation, with specific responsibility for Defence's supply chain and support to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 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 Royal Artillery 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.