{{Short description|British Army general (1913–1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Major-General | name = Patrick Man | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|CBE|DSO|MC}} | image = | caption = | birth_date = 17 March 1913<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.manfamily.org/about/individuals/jonas-man/george-man-163031-1664/henry-man-1660/370-2/john-man-1718-1783/37-2/289-2/edward-garnet-man-1837-1920/hubert-william-man-1876-1956/patrick-holberton-man-1913-1979/ | title=Patrick Holberton Man (1913 – 1979) | the MAN & Other Families }}</ref> | death_date = 10 October 1979 (aged 66) | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = Kent, England<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.manfamily.org/about/individuals/jonas-man/george-man-163031-1664/henry-man-1660/370-2/john-man-1718-1783/37-2/289-2/edward-garnet-man-1837-1920/hubert-william-man-1876-1956/patrick-holberton-man-1913-1979/ | title=Patrick Holberton Man (1913 – 1979) | the MAN & Other Families }}</ref> | death_place = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | service_years = 1933−1968 | service_number = 58144 | rank = Major-General | unit = Royal Hampshire Regiment | commands = Aldershot District | battles = World War II<br>Malayan Emergency | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath<br>Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br>Distinguished Service Order<br>Military Cross | relations = | other_work = }} Major-General '''Patrick Holberton Man''' CB CBE DSO MC (17 March 1913 – 10 October 1979) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.
==Military career== Man was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) in 1933.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MAN1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref>
He served in World War II initially as a Staff Captain with 22nd Infantry Brigade and then as a General Staff Officer with 4th Infantry Division, with the War Office and then with the Staff College, Camberley.<ref name=lh/> In 1943 he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General at the Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander for South East Asia Command moving on to be Director of Administration Planning there in 1944.<ref name=lh/>
After the War he became Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office before becoming a General Staff Officer at the Imperial Defence College in 1952.<ref name=lh/> He served in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency from 1954 and then became Director of Administration Planning at the War Office in 1956.<ref name=lh/> In 1958 he moved to the War Office and in 1959 he went to the British Army of the Rhine.<ref name=lh/> He was made General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1963 and Director of Personal Services (Army) at the Ministry of Defence in 1966; he retired in 1968.<ref name=lh/>
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Military Provost Staff Corps from 1967 to 1972.<ref name=lh/>
In retirement he wrote ''The Great Rebellion of Queen Boudicca'', a historical novel about Queen Boudica.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Rebellion-Queen-Boudicca/dp/1847485030 The Great Rebellion of Queen Boudicca by Patrick Man] Athena Books, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-84748-503-8}}</ref>
He lived at Wickham Market in Suffolk where he died in 1979.<ref name=lh/>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *[https://generals.dk/general/Man/Patrick_Holberton/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
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