Richard Simpkin
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Brigadier Richard Evelyn Simpkin MC (1921–1986) was a British Army officer.
Life
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His birth was registered in the second quarter of 1921 in the St George Hanover Square registration district of central London,[1] son of Sir Oswald Richard Arthur Simpkin (warden of Winchester College from 1932 to 1936[2] and second holder of the role of British Public Trustee) and Evelyn Mary Isabel Coller, who had married in Norfolk the previous year.[3]
He was granted an emergency commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) on 1 March 1942[4] and whilst still at that rank and in that unit was awarded the Military Cross on 24 February following year.[5] In 1947 - already a War Substantive Captain but still on his Emergency Commission - he was made a permanent Lieutenant in the post-war RTR with seniority from 25 October 1943.[6] In the 1964 New Year Honours he was made an OBE, by which time he was a lieutenant colonel.[7]
Selected works
[edit]- Antitank: An Airmechanized Response to Armored Threats in the 90s. Oxford: Brassey's, 1982. ISBN 0-08-027036-0.
- (In association with John Erickson), Deep Battle: The Brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevskii. London: Brassey's Defence, 1987. ISBN 0-08-031193-8.
- Broadmanship: A Guide to Safe Boating on the Norfolk Broads. Cartoons by Nicholas Walmsley, illustrations by Chas Emerson. London: Barrie and Jenkins, Bayard Books, 1976. ISBN 0-214-20285-2.
- The Cruising Yachtsman's Navigator. Illustrated by John Bradley. London: S. Paul, 1978. ISBN 0-09-132830-6, ISBN 0-09-132831-4.
- Human Factors in Mechanized Warfare. Oxford: Brassey's Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0-08-028340-3.
- Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty-first Century Warfare. Foreword by Donn A. Starry. London: Brassey's Defence, 1985. ISBN 0-08-031170-9.
- Red Armour: An Examination of the Soviet Mobile Force Concept. Oxford: Brassey's Defence, 1984. ISBN 0-08-028341-1.
- Seamanship for the Cruising Yachtsman. London: Paul, 1979. ISBN 0-09-138300-5.
- Tank Warfare: An Analysis of Soviet and NATO Tank Philosophy. With a foreword by Robert W. Komer and an introduction by F. M. von Senger und Etterlin. London: Brassey's Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-904609-25-1, ISBN 0-8448-1329-X.
References
[edit]- ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007, district - St George Hanover Square, Vol - 1a, Page 753
- ↑ "Cup and Cover, 1937 [Si28]".
- ↑ "Who Was Who - Sir Richard Oswald Arthur Simpkin".
- ↑ "Supplement to The London Gazette Of Tuesday, the 11th of March 1941". p. 1493.
- ↑ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 24 February, 1942". p. 894.
- ↑ "Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 29th of July, 1947". p. 3612.
- ↑ "Supplement to the London Gazette". 1 January 1964.
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