Richard Fyffe

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Alan Fyffe KBE CB DSO MC (12 August 1912 – 24 December 1972) was Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence).

Fyffe was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in August 1932.

[1] [2] He served in World War II initially as a General Staff Officer and then with his regiment in North Africa and Italy.

[5] He temporarily commanded 61st Infantry Brigade early in 1945,[6] and on 3 May 1945 he went blindfolded behind enemy lines to negotiate the surrender of a German corps.

[1] He was appointed Deputy Military Secretary at the War Office in 1957 and Brigadier commanding the Army Air Corps in 1960.

The gravestone of Richard and Diana Fyffe in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Great Hampden, March 2020.