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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.
The Templer Plan was a political directive which laid out High Commissioner General Gerald Templer’s plan for the political and economic development of Malaya in the 1950s. It was outlined in a fifty-minute speech delivered on 19 March 1952, by General Templer to the Federal Legislative Council of Malaya. [1]
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.
8 ott 2001 · This article rebuts recent attempts to diminish Sir Gerald Templer's role in the Malayan Emergency. It contends that the revisionists overlook the decisive psychological impact of Templer's Malayan sojourn.
