Lieutenant General Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE (born 20 March 1955) is a former Quartermaster-General and Master-General of the Ordnance to the Army.

[2] In 1995 he was deployed at short notice with his artillery regiment to Bosnia, initially under command UNPROFOR,[3] then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force[3] and finally, after the Dayton Agreement, he was assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

[2] His artillery group based in Sarajevo and on Mount Igman provided surveillance, targeting and indirect fire in support of UNPROFOR and NATO's Operation Deliberate Force.

[2] In 2004 he was appointed Capability Manager for Battlefield Manoeuvre and in June 2006 he became Master-General of the Ordnance.

[4] In February 2007 he became Chief of Materiel (Land) and a Main Board member of the new Defence Equipment and Support organisation, with specific responsibility for Defence's supply chain and support to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.