Desmond Langley

Major General Sir Henry Desmond Allen Langley, KCVO, MBE (16 May 1930 – 14 February 2008) was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District from 1979 to 1983.

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Langley was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949.

[1] In 1976 he was appointed commander of the 4th Guards Armoured Brigade and in 1978 he became a brigadier on the General Staff at UK Land Forces.

[2] His final appointment was as commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in 1983, before retiring in 1988.

[1] Among the mourners who attended Langley's funeral at St Luke's Church in Milland on 10 March 2008 were two former commanding officers of the Bermuda Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Alan Rance and Lieutenant Colonel David Burch, as well as two of Langley's three aides-de-camp from the Bermuda Regiment, Major William Madeiros and Captain Larry Mussenden.