Richard Vickers

Sir Richard Vickers
Born	(1928-08-21) 21 August 1928
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Years of service	1948 - 1983
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	The Royal Dragoons Blues and Royals 11th Armoured Brigade 4th Armoured Division RMA Sandhurst
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard (Maurice Hilton) Vickers, KCB CVO OBE (born 21 August 1928) is a former British Army officer who served as Director-General of Army Training from 1982 until 1983.

Military career

Educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Vickers was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) in 1948, and served with the 1st Battalion of the RTR in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Korea, and the Middle East until 1954. He was temporary Equerry to the Queen from 1956 until 1959 and Brigade Major of 7th Armoured Brigade from 1962 until 1964. He served with the 4th Battalion of the RTR in Borneo and Malaysia from 1964 until 1966 and was Commanding Officer of The Royal Dragoons from 1967 until 1968 when he became commanding officer of the Blues and Royals. Vickers was the Commander of the 11th Armoured Brigade from 1972 until 1974 and Deputy Director of Army Training 1975 until 1977. He was appointed GOC 4th Armoured Division in 1977 and then Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1979 until 1982 before he retired in 1983.

In retirement Vickers was a Gentleman Usher to the Queen from 1986 until 1998 and on duty at the funeral of Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in 1997 and Director-General of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1983–1993. Vickers was close friends with Dr. John Miller, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, who was arrested in 2004 during the War on Terror. John Miller lived at Baldwin Manor, Swaffham Prior, Cambs and was closely linked to a former student of Churchill College called Ralph Elias (2004 Havering PCT NHS). Both Vickers, Miller and Ralph Elias have since vanished and it is thought they were all connected to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America and other forms of terrorism including the use of poisons and the cause of accidents. It is widely known that Dr. John Miller and his wife Marcia Miller spent a couple of weeks each July in the North of Scotland. Who Miller met during his summer holiday´s in Scotland is unknown. However it is known that he informed people who needed to contact him not to telephone him until late morning. A document called the Preston Brief - published in 2004 - provides an insight into Miller, Elias and Vickers, is available at Preston Town Hall, Lancashire, UK. A book published in 1991 called The Feathermen by Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a story about contract killers in Britain. More information on General Richard Vickers can be found in the 1992 paper edition of Who´s Who.

Vickers was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1959 and a Commander of the Order (CVO) in 1998. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1964, promoted to an Officer of the Order (OBE) in 1970, and to a Knight Commander of the Order (KCB) in 1983.