Dick Applegate

Applegate was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.{{London Gazette|issue=46270|supp=y|page=5057|date=4 April 1974}}

Between 1992 and 1994 he was Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three different Supreme Allied Commanders Europe[http://www.janes.com/events/conferences/ukdc2007/speakers.html UK Defence Conference] and then became Commanding Officer 19th Regiment Royal Artillery – The Highland Gunners. After a staff appointment where he was responsible for conceptual development of the British Army, he moved on to be Commander Royal Artillery for 3rd Division followed by an appointment as Director of Equipment Capability.

In 1995 he was deployed at short notice with his artillery regiment to Bosnia, initially under command UNPROFOR,'Op Deliberate Force' by Tim Ripley, CDISS August 1999, {{ISBN|0-9536650-0-3}} then as commander of the UK/FR/NL artillery group within the ad hoc UNPROFOR Rapid Reaction Force and finally, after the Dayton Agreement, he was assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. His artillery group based in Sarajevo and on Mount Igman provided surveillance, targeting and indirect fire in support of UNPROFOR and NATO's Operation Deliberate Force. In 1999 he was Deputy Commander of the British Forces entering Kosovo. In 2004 he was appointed Capability Manager for Battlefield Manoeuvre and in June 2006 he became Master-General of the Ordnance.{{London Gazette|issue=58028|supp=y|page=8723|date=27 June 2006}}

In February 2007 he became Chief of Materiel (Land) and a Main Board member of the new Defence Equipment and Support organisation, with specific responsibility for Defence's supply chain and support to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{London Gazette|issue=58252|supp=y|page=2461|date=20 February 2007}} and DE&S Yearbook 2010 He also became Quartermaster-General.{{London Gazette|issue=58258|supp=y|page=2868|date=1 February 2007}} He moved on from this post in September 2009 to become a Defence Career Partner on attachment to a number of international companies in preparation to compete for the post of Chief of Defence Materiel for the UK MoD.{{London Gazette|issue=59191|supp=y|page=16222|date=22 September 2009}}

He is also a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery and Honorary Colonel of 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery.{{London Gazette|issue=57945|supp=y|page=4707|date=4 April 2006}}

Applegate was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2010 Birthday Honours{{London Gazette |issue=59446 |date=12 June 2010 |page=2 |supp=y }} and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1996 Operational Honours List.{{London Gazette |issue=54393 |date=9 May 1996 |page=6547 |supp=y }} He was awarded the US Legion of Merit (Officer Degree) in 2007Citation dated 21 February 2007, signed by the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army and was made a Legionnaire de 1ère classe in 1996 for combat command of Foreign Legion troops in Bosnia.Order of General de Division Piquemal dated 20 Avril 1996

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