George Warren Richards

Major-General George Warren Richards, (4 July 1898 – 23 February 1978) was a British Army officer.

Military career After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Richards was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers on 16 August 1916. Attached to the Machine Gun Corps, he saw action at the Battle of Aleppo in October 1918 in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. In 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross.

Remaining in the army during the interwar period, Richards transferred to the Royal Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) in 1920 and was adjutant of the 4th Battalion, RTC in 1928. He married two years later. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1934 to 1935 and was then a senior instructor at the Tank School, Bovington, from 1939 to 1940.

Richards became commanding officer of the 49th Royal Tank Regiment at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire in August 1940. In early 1941 he was sent to North Africa where he served as a staff officer with the 7th Armoured Division during Operations 'Battleaxe' and 'Crusader'.

Richards retired to Abergavenny and was a deputy lieutenant for Monmouthshire in 1965.