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Jeremy Blacker

Jeremy Blacker

British Army general

General Sir Anthony Stephen Jeremy Blacker KCB CBE (6 May 1939 – 17 March 2005) was a Master-General of the Ordnance.

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Military career

Educated at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Blacker was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1959.[1] He was deployed to Northern Ireland in 1974 at the height of the Troubles.[1]

In 1979 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Royal Tank Regiment and in 1981 he became Director of Studies at the Royal Military College of Science.[1] In 1982 he was appointed Commander of 11th Armoured Brigade in Germany and then in 1985 he became Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of Defence Staff.[1] In 1987 he returned to the Royal Military College of Science as Commandant and in 1989 he became Assistant Chief of Defence Staff.[1] In 1991 he was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance; in this role he managed the introduction of the AS-90 self-propelled gun.[2] He retired in 1995.[1]

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, of the Royal Tank Regiment and of the Royal Armoured Corps.[1]

Family

In 1973 he married Julia Mary Trew and together they went on to have two daughters.[1]

His aunt was the painter, Elva Blacker.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Obituary: General Sir Jeremy Blacker The Times, 22 March 2005
  2. [2]
    "Hansard, 23 February 1995". Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  3. [3]
    "Artist's work should be seen". News Shopper. 31 July 2002. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
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