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Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and took part against the Arab Resistance in Palestine.
Templer fu capo dello Stato Maggiore Generale Imperiale tra il 1955 e il 1958, venne promosso maresciallo di campo, Conestabile della Torre di Londra e Lord Luogotenente della Grande Londra; ritiratosi dall'esercito nel 1973, trascorse i suoi ultimi anni di vita curando la fondazione del National Army Museum di Londra.
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer commanded infantry and armoured divisions during the Second World War. He later went on to lead a successful counter-insurgency operation in Malaya.
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and took part against the Arab Resistance in Palestine.
Born in 1898, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Francis Templer, Gerald Templer was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers, his father's regiment, as a 17-year old in 1916. Too young to be sent to the front, he was initially posted to the Faughs' 3rd (Service) Battalion in Buncrana.
27 ott 1979 · LONDON, Oct. 26 — Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who directed the suppression of a Communist insurgency in Malaya, died at his home here yesterday after a short illness. He was 81 years old.
General Templer was appointed as High Commissioner and Director of Operations in February 1952, following the murder in October 1951 by Communist insurgents of the previous High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, on his way up to Fraser's Hill from Kuala Lumpur.
