14 Facts About Hugh Beach

Hugh Beach joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in August 1941.

Hugh Beach saw active service in France and Belgium in 1944 and in Java in 1946.

Hugh Beach cleared the road again and rode on the next vehicle to use the road.

Hugh Beach was injured while reconnoitring a bridge at Cuinchy, on La Bassee Canal, but insisted on filing a full report before being taken to hospital at Arras, enabling the British to capture the bridge.

Hugh Beach was director of army staff duties at the Ministry of Defence from 1971 to 1973, commandant of the Staff College, Camberley from 1974 to 1975, and Deputy Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces from 1976 to 1977 before becoming Master-General of the Ordnance from 1977 to 1981.

Hugh Beach served as Colonel of the Royal Pioneer Corps from 1976 to 1981.

Hugh Beach chaired Ministry of Defence Study Groups on Censorship in War in 1983 and Education in the Army in 1984.

Hugh Beach was director of the Council for Arms Control from 1986 to 1989.

Hugh Beach was a member of the Board of Governors of Monkton Combe School from 1984 to 1993.

Hugh Beach was a member of the board or executive committee of: the Council for Christian Approaches to Defence, the Centre for Defence Studies, the Verification Technology Information Centre, the International Security Information Service, and of the British Pugwash Group.

Hugh Beach lectured and contributed chapters to over two dozen books as well as publishing a number of monographs, articles and book reviews.

In January 2009, The Times newspaper published a joint letter from Field Marshal Lord Bramall, General Lord Ramsbotham and General Hugh Beach arguing that the UK government should fund more realistic military needs rather than perpetuate its Trident programme, arguing that:.

Hugh Beach held honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws from the University of Kent in Canterbury.

Hugh Beach was an honorary fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and of the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.