Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Walter Craddock KBE CB DSO (3 August 1910 – 14 February 1977) was a senior officer of the British Army who achieved high office in the 1960s.

[4] He served in the Second World War, initially in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the Battle of France;[4] in 1943 he was a member of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill's delegation to Washington, D.C., Quebec, and Cairo.

[4] In 1944 he became Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, fighting in North West Europe, in which capacity he earned a DSO, before moving on to be Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, which was also serving in North West Europe, later that year.

[4] He was wounded in action several times, losing one foot and part of a leg.

[4] He was appointed Major General in charge of Administration for the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in West Germany in 1957 and became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1959.