About Paul Travers
Lived 1927 – 1983 (aged 55). Paul Travers was a British military leader.
Lieutenant-General Sir Paul Anthony Travers (15 August 1927 – 10 June 1983) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
Military career Travers was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment in 1947.
In 1978 he was selected to be Chief of Staff at the Logistics Executive before moving on, in 1979, to be Vice-Quartermaster-General. In 1981 he was appointed General Officer Commanding South East District and in 1982 he became Quartermaster-General to the Forces; he died in office in 1983. He is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Transport and the Army Legal Corps.
Travers was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1981 Birthday Honours.
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Who was Paul Travers?
Quartermaster-General to the Forces
When was Paul Travers born?
Paul Travers was born on 15 August 1927 in Wandsworth.
When did Paul Travers die?
Paul Travers died on 10 June 1983 in London.
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Paul Travers was a military leader.
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Paul Travers was British.
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