Redmond Watt

General Sir Charles Redmond "Reddy" Watt, KCB, KCVO, CBE, DL (born 1950) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Land Command from 2006 to 2008.

Reddy Watt was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1972.

Promoted to lieutenant colonel on 30 June 1988, he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards in 1990.

In 2005 he was appointed General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland: in this role he advocated long-term planning and indicated that such lessons might be applied to Iraq.

[4] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 2008, and retired from the army later that year.