Tony Raper

Major-General Anthony John Raper CB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Anthony Raper
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Years of service	1970–2006
Rank	Major-General
Battles / wars	Bosnian War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Military career

Educated at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College,^[1] and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,^[2] Raper was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1970.^[3] He subsequently undertook an army-funded in-service degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1974.^[2] He was deployed to Bosnia, where he provided communications support for the Implementation Force (IFOR) in 1995.^[2]

In 1998 he was appointed chief executive of the Defence Communications Services Agency.^[4]

In 2001 he moved to the Defence Logistics Organisation, where he became director-general for strategy & logistic development: then in 2002 he was promoted to Defence Logistics Transformation Team leader as well as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.^[5] He retired in 2006.^[6]

He was also colonel commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals.^[7]