Felix Ready

General Sir Felix Fordati Ready (16 July 1872 – 6 April 1940) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1931 to 1935.

Educated at Wellington College, Ready was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a second lieutenant on 5 December 1891.

He returned to South Africa in 1902, as the war drew to a close, and was promoted to captain on 15 January 1902.

[3] After the end of the war in June 1902, Ready and the rest of the 2nd Battalion was sent to Egypt, where they arrived on the SS Dominion in November 1902.

[4] Ready served in the First World War, becoming in June 1915 an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general and for which he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel while holding his appointment,[5] and later as adjutant general in Mesopotamia.