Field Marshal Sir John Wilfred Stanier, GCB, MBE (6 October 1925 – 10 November 2007) was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1982 to 1985.

[5] Promoted to lieutenant on 16 October 1948,[6] he served with the intelligence branch in Italy in 1949 before being posted to the British Army of the Rhine in 1950.

[1] He was promoted to captain on 6 October 1952[7] and became an instructor at the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in April 1954, before attending the Staff College, Camberley in 1957.

[9] He attended the Joint Services Staff College and, from 1962, commanded the tanks in "C" Squadron of his regiment in Germany,[1] before returning to Camberley as Director of Studies in 1963.

[13] After serving as the Army's director of public relations in London from 1971, he was appointed General Officer Commanding 1st Division on 3 November 1973[14] with the substantive rank of major-general from 21 January 1974.

[1] His interests included fly fishing, sailing and horse riding and he was also President of the Hampshire branch of the British Red Cross Society from 1986 to 1994.