General Sir Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford, KCB, CBE (18 February 1878 – 12 April 1949) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
[1] Born on 18 February 1878, Ford was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in 1896,[2] and promoted to captain on 1 January 1903.
[5] In January 1928 Ford, by then a colonel, was made a companion of the Order of the Bath,[6] and was an aide-de-camp to the King from 1929 to 1930.
[7] Appointed Adjutant-General Royal Marines in June 1930, then the highest appointment within the Royal Marines, he was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in January 1933.
After her death in 1911, he was married in 1913 to Mildred Powell Underwood, daughter of Capt.