About Edwin Beckett
Lived 1937 – 2018 (aged 81). Edwin Beckett was a military leader.
Major-General Edwin Horace Alexander Beckett, (16 May 1937 – 15 November 2018) was a British Army officer who became Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington, D.C.
Military career Educated at the Henry Fanshawe School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Beckett was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1957. As a junior officer he saw active service during the Aden Emergency.
After retiring from the army, Beckett was Chairman of the British Brands Group. He died on 15 November 2018, at the age of 81.
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