{{Short description|British Army officer (1916–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Major-General |name= Bernard Penfold |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|LVO}} |birth_name=Robert Bernard Penfold |birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1916|12|19}} |death_date= {{death date and age|2015|4|22|1916|12|19|df=y}} |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |branch= 23px British Army |service_years=1936-1972 |rank= Major-General |commands=6th Bn King's African Rifles<br />127th Infantry Brigade<br />South East District |unit= |battles= |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order |other_work= }} Major-General '''Robert Bernard Penfold''' CB LVO (19 December 1916 – 22 April 2015) was a British Army officer who commanded South East District.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKIWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Penfold%22+AND++%22Robert+Bernard%22+1916|title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes|via=google.ca|year=1969}}</ref>
==Military career== Penfold was commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment in 1936 and then transferred to the Indian Army.<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/PENFOLD.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002233821/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/PENFOLD.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 October 2012|title=King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives|work=kcl.ac.uk|accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> He served in World War II as an officer in Iraqforce and after the War transferred to the Royal Artillery.<ref name=lh/> He became commanding Officer of 6th Battalion King's African Rifles in Tanganyika in 1959.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed Commander of 127th Infantry Brigade in 1962, Security Operations Advisor to the High Commissioner in Aden during the Aden Emergency in 1964 and Chief of Defence Staff, Kenya Defence Forces in 1966.<ref name=lh/> He went on to be General Officer Commanding South East District in 1969 before he retired in 1972.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed CB in 1969<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44863|supp=y|page=5963|date=14 June 1969}}</ref> and died in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/190094/penfold|title=Major-General Robert Bernard Penfold CB LVO|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=25 April 2015|archive-date=2 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502083954/http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/190094/penfold|url-status=dead}}</ref>
After he retired from the Army, he became the first general manager of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club from 1972 to 1979.<ref>"PENFOLD, Maj.-Gen. Robert Bernard", ''Who's Who 2013''. London: A. & C. Black, 2012, p.1792.</ref> Penfold Park in the centre of the Sha Tin Racecourse, which was constructed during his term of office as general manager, is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hkjc/All_Items/Images/201201/t20120130_48610.html|title=Ribbon-cutting Ceremony, Arch Gate, Penfold Park, 1980|publisher=HK Memory|accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Charles Stainforth}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC South East District|years=1969–1972}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Allan Taylor}} {{s-end}}
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