| 词条 | Christopher Wallace (British Army officer) |
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| name =Sir Christopher Wallace | image =File:Brigadier Christopher Wallace.jpg | caption =Sir Christopher Wallace | birth_date =3 January 1943 | death_date ={{death date and age|2016|1|7|1943|1|3|df=y}} | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place =Farnborough, Hants | death_place =Basingstoke, Hants | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname =The Wal | allegiance ={{UK}} | branch = British Army | serviceyears = | rank =Lieutenant-General | unit =Royal Green Jackets | commands =3rd Bn Royal Green Jackets 7th Armoured Brigade 3rd Armoured Division Staff College, Camberley | battles =Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Northern Ireland | awards =Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant-General Sir Christopher Brooke Quentin Wallace {{post-nominals|KBE|DL}} (3 January 1943 – 7 January 2016) was a British Army general and military historian. Early lifeBorn the son of Major Robert and Diane Wallace, he was competitive from boyhood. At his preparatory school where he was head boy as well as captain of cricket and football, the headmaster noted “This boy needs to learn to lead rather than drive.” He was further educated at Shrewsbury School where he was also head boy. As a boy he had developed a love of singing and this continued into later life.[1] At the age of 18 Wallace entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he passed out top of the order of merit, receiving the Queen’s Medal.[1][2] Military careerWallace was commissioned into the 2nd Green Jackets (Kings Royal Rifle Corps) in 1962.[3] The regiment saw service in Penang and Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation as part of Far East Land Forces (FARELF) from December 1964 to November 1967 under Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Bramall. Wallace attended the Royal Military College of Science from September to December 1974 and this was followed by a year at the Staff College, Camberley. He had three tours of duty in Northern Ireland during the Troubles for which he was mentioned in despatches.[4] His regimental service in the Royal Green Jackets concluded with command of the 3rd Battalion in Germany and Northern Ireland from 1983 to 1985.[1] While on exercises at Celle, British Army of the Rhine, he was sharing a tented trailer with his second-in-command when a gas lamp exploded and set the accommodation ablaze. Wallace was badly burned on the hands and face while getting his brother officer to safety.[1] He became commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in 1986, Director of Public Relations (Army) in the Ministry of Defence in 1989 and General Officer Commanding 3rd Armoured Division in 1990.[1] He went on to be Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley in 1993 and then established the Permanent Joint Headquarters (UK) at Northwood during a tour from 1994 to 1996, before becoming the UK's first Chief of Joint Operations in 1996.[1] He was retired, aged 56, on 20 June 1999.[5][2] Wallace was Colonel commandant of the Royal Military Police from 1 April 1992 until March 1999,[6][7] Colonel commandant of the Royal Green Jackets from 1995 to 1998 and Colonel commandant of the Light Division from 1998 to 1999.[8][9] Wallace has been described as a meticulous wordsmith and a stickler for detail. However, one of his senior colonels, who had served under him in Germany and at the Permanent Joint Headquarters, described him as “A no-nonsense, to the point, agile-thinking and inspiring leader”.[10] Subsequent career and interestsWallace was Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies, an appointment gained by open competition, from January 2001 until January 2005.[1] In July 1999 he was appointed as a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and from 2006 to 2008 he held the post of deputy chairman.[11] He was Chairman of the Trustees of The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum from 1999 until October 2015. The widely acclaimed exhibition With the Rifles to Waterloo will remain as a lasting legacy of his skills as a fund-raiser and project manager.[12] Wallace was also Chairman of the Winchester Military Museums from 2002 to 2016.[13] He was also a keen bird-watcher, a hobby which he expanded as his career took him around the world.[1] He had been an accomplished cricketer from his youth and became a single-figure handicap golfer, having a fine record playing in the army golf team on many occasions.[1] He was President of the Army Golf Association from 1995 to 2000.[11] After he retired from the army he was able to develop his interest in military history and become a dedicated and accomplished historian. He had three books published and regularly presented papers on a range of military subjects; these included a talk on one of his ancestors, Lieutenant-General Sir George Augustus Quentin, who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars.[14] He was a member of the British Commission for Military History.[15] FamilyIn 1969 Wallace married Delicia Curtis; they had one son and one daughter.[1] He died in hospital in Basingstoke on 7 January 2016 at the age of 73, from the rare, debilitating, disease Amyloidosis.[16][1] Decorations, awards and appointments
He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire in 2004.[21] Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12136497/Lieutenant-General-Sir-Christopher-Wallace-obituary.html|title=Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Wallace - obituary|publisher=The Telegraph|date=2 February 2016|accessdate=7 April 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=Michael Wilkes}}{{s-ttl|title=GOC 3rd Armoured Division|years=1990−1992}}{{s-aft|after=Hew Pike}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4666996.ece|title=Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Wallace - obituary|publisher=The Times, page 74|date=16 January 2016|accessdate=8 April 2016}} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=42928|supp=y|page=1810|date=22 February 1963}} 4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.royalgreenjackets.co.uk/rgjra_live/frontend/boards.asp?mode=view&postid=837&type=In%20Memoriam|title= Royal Green Jackets Regimental Association – Military Career |accessdate=8 April 2016}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=55530|page=6779|date=22 June 1999}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=52885|supp=y|page=6178|date=6 April 1992}} 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=52937|supp=y|page=9356|date=1 June 1992}} 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=55530|page=6779|date=22 June 1999}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://rgjband.com/downloads/ |title=The CBQ March was composed in 1999 by the Bandmaster of The Light Division Band (WO 1 A. Knox) to mark the retirement from the Army of The Colonel Commandant, The Light Division, Lieutenant General “CBQ” Wallace; it incorporates bugle calls from the former Regiments of The Royal Green Jackets|accessdate=13 March 2016}} 10. ^Colonel Stephen Harrison, 8 January 2016 11. ^1 {{cite web|url= http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/19502/Christopher-Brooke-Quentin-WALLACE|title= Debretts Profile Page – CBQ Wallace|accessdate= 8 April 2016|deadurl= yes|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160505071803/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/19502/Christopher-Brooke-Quentin-WALLACE|archivedate= 5 May 2016|df= dmy-all}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp|title=Overview of The Royal Green Jackets Museum|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302064014/http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp|archivedate=2 March 2016|df=dmy-all}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://hampshirewriterssociety.co.uk/2015/02/12/lieutenant-general-sir-christopher-wallace-chairman-of-the-winchester-military-museums/|title=Hampshire Writers Society}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/pages_events/events_0024.asp|title=Generals and their Chateaux - an Evening talk at RGJ Museum|publisher=}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bcmh.org.uk/|title=British Commission for Military History - Home|publisher=}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.amyloidosis.org.uk|title=Amyloidosis Patient Information Site|work=Amyloidosis Patient Information Site}} 17. ^{{London Gazette|issue=47418|supp=y|page=7|date=30 December 1977}} 18. ^{{London Gazette|issue=49212|supp=y|page=1|date=30 December 1982}} 19. ^{{London Gazette|issue=54794|supp=y|page=5|date=13 June 1997}} 20. ^{{London Gazette|issue=50391|page=240|date=7 January 1986}} 21. ^Hampshire County Council {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215124820/http://www3.hants.gov.uk/cx-lieutenancy-newpage-12.htm |date=15 December 2009 }} |-{{s-bef|before=Michael Rose}}{{s-ttl|title=Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley|years=1993−1994}}{{s-aft|after=Anthony Pigott}} |-{{succession box | title=Chief of Joint Operations | before=New Creation | after=Vice-Admiral Sir Ian Garnett| years=1996−1999}} |-{{succession box | title=Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies | before=Vice-Admiral John McAnally | after=Admiral Sir Ian Garnett| years=2001−2005}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Christopher}} 10 : British Army generals|Royal Green Jackets officers|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|2016 deaths|1943 births|Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|People educated at Shrewsbury School|Deputy Lieutenants of Hampshire|British military historians|Commandants of the Staff College, Camberley |
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