Major General Patrick Cordingley

Army veteran: Female troops 'disruptive'. 16:15, UK, Friday 01 September 2017. Women are "disruptive" in general warfare. Video: Major General Patrick Cordingley, who led the Desert Rats during the first Gulf War, says women troops would be "disruptive".

The British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) were occupation forces set up in Germany following the two World Wars. The predecessor to British Forces Germany, the BAOR was active from 1919-1929, and then 1945-1994. Back in the 1950s, a posting in Germany was being actively encouraged as a vast British ...

A MAJOR General, an Olympic champion and a research scientist are among those to be named by Her Majesty the Queen in the annual Birthday Honours List. Major General Patrick Cordingley DSO, from Salisbury, has been awarded an OBE for voluntary services in recognition of his work as chairman of ...

One answer sometimes offered is outlined by Major General Patrick Cordingley, who led British forces in the first Gulf War. As he said in 2015: “Strategic nuclear weapons have no military use. It would seem the government wishes to replace Trident simply to remain a nuclear power alongside the other four ...

On Wednesday night, on Radio 4's Moral Maze, Major General Patrick Cordingley DSO, commander of the Desert Rats during the first Gulf war – so no bleeding-heart liberal – said that he thought it would be the moral duty of commanders not to fire, even if Mrs May had instructed them to do so.

The "cause was both just and legal", says Maj-Gen Patrick Cordingley, the 7th Armoured Brigade's commanding officer in "Desert Storm" (few will remember it by its British name, "Operation Granby".) Importantly, military action complied with both international and UK law, he adds, clarity lacking in the ...

“When you are short of money, you should put everything in the melting pot,” says Major General Patrick Cordingley, former commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats. He argues that Trident should not be ringfenced and the costs should be weighed up against new ships, planes, tanks and ...

In a serious political intervention, Major General Patrick Cordingley, who led British forces in the first Gulf War, said: 'Strategic nuclear weapons have no military use. It would seem the government wishes to replace Trident simply to remain a nuclear power alongside the other four permanent members of ...

Almost a decade ago Dr Franz B Humer, then chairman of Roche, told the company's annual general meeting in 2007: “More effective anti-malarials with better side-effect profiles were now available, and these were generally used.” Maj-Gen Patrick Cordingley DSO, commander of the Desert Rats during ...

He married, secondly, in 1961, Audrey Beaumont-Nesbitt. She predeceased him, and he is survived by two stepdaughters and the two sons of his first marriage – one of whom, Major-General Patrick Cordingley, commanded 7th Armoured Brigade in the First Gulf War. Maj-Gen John Cordingley, born ...

It was a conflict of truly staggering proportions involving allied forces from 33 countries united against Iraq. Major General Patrick Cordingley who commanded the "Desert Rats" 7th Armoured Division is from West Dean near Salisbury. Remembering the start of the operation, the retired officer described how ...