Malcolm Cartwright-Taylor
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Sir Malcolm Cartwright-Taylor
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|birth_date= 29 October 1911England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
|birth_place= Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
|death_place= Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
|allegiance= United Kingdom
|branch= Royal Marines
|serviceyears= 1930–1965
|rank= General
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|commands= Commandant General Royal Marines
|battles= Second World War
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
|awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
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General Sir Malcolm Cartwright Cartwright-Taylor, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (29 October 1911 – 5 November 1969) was a British Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1962 to 1965.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Gen. Cartwright-Taylor – Command of Royal Marines|work=The Times |date=7 November 1969 |page=12 }}
Military career
Educated at Rugby School, Cartwright-Taylor was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1930 and served in the Second World War in the battleship {{HMS|Renown|1916|6}}, at the Royal Marines Depot at Exton and at Headquarters, 117th Infantry Brigade.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/TAYLOR7.shtml Sir Malcolm Cartwright Cartwright-Taylor] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He was appointed Fleet Royal Marines Officer for the South Atlantic Fleet in 1950, Major General Royal Marines at Plymouth in 1959 and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1962. In that role he deployed 2,000 Royal Marines to Malaysia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19650120&id=BiYmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AP4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=697,2549528 President Sukarno, Wild Man of Borneo] Gettysburg Times, 20 January 1965 before retiring in 1965.
In retirement he became a member of the Membership Arbitration Panel of the Association of British Travel Agents.[https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=1965-12-13a.1051.2 Orders of the Day — Holiday Travel Trade] Hansard, 13 December 1965
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