14 Facts About Richard Howard-Vyse

Richard Howard-Vyse was invested as a Knight Commander Order of St Michael and St George and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

Richard Howard-Vyse held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, and was a Justice of the Peace.

Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse was born on 27 June 1883, the son of Howard Henry Howard-Vyse and Mabel Diana Howard-Vyse of Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire.

Richard Howard-Vyse had two siblings, George Cecil Howard-Vyse died, and Lilly Eleanor Howard-Vyse.

Richard Howard-Vyse was commissioned as a second-lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards in December 1902.

Now a captain, Richard Howard-Vyse attended the British Army's Staff College, Camberley from January 1911.

On 1917, following a request from General Edmund Allenby Richard Howard-Vyse was sent to the Middle East as the Chief Staff Officer for the Desert Mounted Corps, with the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel and the temporary rank of brigadier general.

Richard Howard-Vyse became the next commandant of the Zeitoun School of Instruction, in Cairo.

Richard Howard-Vyse returned to the War Office in 1927 as a grade 1 General Staff officer; and thence was sent to Egypt in 1928 as the commander of the Cairo Cavalry Brigade.

Richard Howard-Vyse was then made the chief of staff to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester for his tour of Australia, being awarded a knighthood.

Richard Howard-Vyse retired from the army in 1935, and in November 1937 was admitted to the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and became the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

Richard Howard-Vyse became the Honorary Colonel of the 99th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1938.

Richard Howard-Vyse was recalled up to military service, with a special appointment, in August 1939, becoming the head of British Military Mission to the French High Command and returning to the reserve list when he relinquished his special appointment in July 1940.

On 14 June 1940, Richard Howard-Vyse was told by Alanbrooke to fly home to London to explain to John Dill that the proposed Brittany Defence Scheme was quite impossible, and all British troops should be evacuated from France as quickly as possible.