General Sir Patrick John Howard-Dobson, GCB (12 August 1921 – 8 November 2009) was a senior British Army officer and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
[2] The regiment formed part of the 7th Armoured Brigade, and, after serving in India, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, landed in Italy in early May 1944.
He again saw action during the fourth and final Battle of Monte Cassino, and later, while attached to Lieutenant General Władysław Anders's Polish II Corps, at the Battle of Ancona, the fighting on the Gothic Line and, in April 1945, at the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, which brought an end to the war in Italy.
For his distinguished services in the war he was awarded the Italian Virtuti Militari and the US Silver Star.
[2] After being granted a commission in the Regular Army, Howard-Dobson attended the Staff College, Camberley.