Felix Ready

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| honorific_prefix = General

| name = Sir Felix Ready

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|07|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Ballasalla, Isle of Man

| death_date = {{death date and age|1940|04|06|1872|07|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = London, England

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| allegiance = United Kingdom

| branch = British Army

| serviceyears = 1891–1935

| rank = General

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| commands = 1st Division
Northern Ireland District

| battles = Second Boer War
First World War

| awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of the Star of India
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

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General Sir Felix Fordati Ready (16 July 1872 – 6 April 1940) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1931 to 1935. He was considered an expert in military tactics.{{cite news |title=General Sir Felix Ready|work=The Times |page=11 |date=8 April 1940 }}

Military career

Ready was the son of Colonel John Tobin Ready and the grandson of John Ready, former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Educated at Wellington College, Ready was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a second lieutenant on 5 December 1891.{{Cite web |url=http://www.owlpen.com/NeameCollaterals.pdf |title=Pedigree of Cotterill |access-date=24 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105160517/http://www.owlpen.com/NeameCollaterals.pdf |archive-date=5 January 2011 |url-status=dead }} He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 July 1894, and was part of the Kitchener Expedition to defeat the Mahdi in Sudan in 1898–99, taking part in the battles of Atbara (April 1898) and Omdurman (September 1898).Hart′s Army list, 1903

With the 2nd Battalion of his regiment, Ready served in South Africa during the Second Boer War of 1899–1900, taking part in operations in the Orange Free State from February to July 1900 and Transvaal from July to November 1900. He returned to South Africa in 1902, as the war drew to a close, and was promoted to captain on 15 January 1902. For his service in the war he was mentioned in despatches, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps. After the end of the war in June 1902, Ready and the rest of the 2nd Battalion was sent to Egypt, where they arrived on the SS Dominion in November 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= The Army in South Africa – The War office and reservist|date=8 November 1902 |page=10 |issue=36920}}

Ready served in the First World War, becoming in August 1914 a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster general{{London Gazette|issue=29006|date=11 December 1914|page=10668|supp=y}} and in June 1915 an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general and for which he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel while holding his appointment,{{London Gazette|issue=29218|page=6589|date=6 July 1915}} He was later an adjutant general in Mesopotamia. In January 1917 he was promoted to brevet colonel{{London Gazette|issue=29886|page=16|date=29 December 1916|supp=y}} and in October was made a temporary major general while employed as a deputy adjutant general.{{London Gazette|issue=30362|page=11305|date=30 October 1917|supp=y}}

His major general's rank became substantive in June 1919.{{London Gazette|issue=31395|page=7424|date=6 June 1919}} He was appointed General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District in 1926 before becoming General Officer Commanding 1st Division at Aldershot in 1929 and then, after being promoted to lieutenant general in August 1930,{{London Gazette|issue=33639|page=5358|date=29 August 1930}} became Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1931. He was made a general in 1934, and retired in 1935.{{London Gazette|issue=34129|page=769|date=1 February 1935}}