Major-General Richard Eustace John Gerrard-Wright CB CBE (9 May 1930 – 12 May 2012) was a British Army officer.
[1] He was deployed to the Suez Canal Zone and to Kenya and then saw action during the Malayan Emergency.
[1] He became commanding officer of a battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment and in that role was deployed to Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
[1] His last appointment was as Director Territorial Army and Cadets at the Ministry of Defence in 1982 before retiring in 1985.
[2] He married Susan Young in 1960; they had two sons and two daughters.