Richard Trant
| Richard Brooking Trant | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | "Dick" |
| Born | 30 March 1928 Thurlestone, England |
| Died | 3 October 2007 (aged 79) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 British Army
|
| Years of service | 1947–1986 |
| Rank |
Quartermaster-General to the Forces Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | C Battery of 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 5th Airportable Brigade Royal Army Educational Corps Royal Regiment of Artillery Royal Army Ordnance Corps Honourable Artillery Company 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery |
| Battles/wars |
Korean War Falklands War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
| Other work | Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea Chairman of the Cornwall Heritage Trust Chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Historic Society President of the Royal Cornwall Show |
General Sir Richard ("Dick") Brooking Trant, KCB, DL (30 March 1928 – 3 October 2007) was an officer in the British Army. He was Land Deputy Commander in the Falklands War, and served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1983 to 1986.
Trant was born in Thurlestone in south Devon and educated at Newquay Grammar School. He attended the Bangalore Officer Training School in 1947, receiving an emergency commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He transferred to a regular commission in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1949, and served with anti-aircraft units in the United Kingdom. He joined the 32nd Medium Regiment in Hong Kong in 1952, and served in the Korean War with 74th Medium Battery in 1953.
He returned to Europe in 1957, joining A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) of the 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, serving with the British Army of the Rhine. He was posted back to India in 1961, to study at the Indian Army Staff College in Wellington Cantonment, and then served as GSO 2 to the Federal Regular Army in Aden Protectorate. He returned to England in 1964, to study at the Joint Services Staff College. He commanded C Battery of 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, and then became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley. He took command of 3RHA, and after another year at Camberley as Colonel GS of the Staff College Division, he became commander of the 5th Airportable Brigade in 1972, when the unit was temporarily sent to Northern Ireland, to reinforce British forces at the height of the Troubles.
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