Paul Travers

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Lieutenant-General | name = Sir Paul Travers | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} | image = | caption = | birth_date = 15 August 1927 | death_date = {{dda|10 June 1983|15 August 1927|df=y}} | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = Wandsworth, Greater London | death_place = London, England | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = 1947–1983 | rank = Lieutenant-General | unit = | commands = South East District | battles = | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} Lieutenant-General '''Sir Paul Anthony Travers''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (15 August 1927 – 10 June 1983) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lieut-Gen Sir Paul Travers |work=The Times |date=15 June 1983 |page= 16 }}</ref>

==Military career== Travers was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment in 1947.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38136|supp=y|page=5696|date=28 November 1947}}</ref> [[File:Sir Paul Travers Grave.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Travers' grave in Aldershot Military Cemetery]] In 1978 he was selected to be Chief of Staff at the Logistics Executive<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47508|supp=y|page=4410|date=10 April 1978}}</ref> before moving on, in 1979, to be Vice-Quartermaster-General.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47983|supp=y|page=13227|date=22 October 1979}}</ref> In 1981 he was appointed General Officer Commanding South East District<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=48511|supp=y|page=1564|date=2 February 1981}}</ref> and in 1982 he became Quartermaster-General to the Forces;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=48928|supp=y|page=4007|date=22 March 1982}}</ref> he died in office in 1983.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=49532|supp=y|page=14706|date=7 November 1983}}</ref> He is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.<ref>Photograph of grave shown in this article</ref>

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Transport<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=48815|supp=y|page=15610|date=7 December 1981}}</ref> and the Army Legal Corps.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=48865|supp=y|page=797|date=18 January 1982}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Sir George Cooper}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC South East District|years=1981–1982}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Richard Trant}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Richard Worsley}} {{s-ttl|title=Quartermaster-General to the Forces|years=1982–1983}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Richard Trant}} |- {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Travers, Paul}} Category:1927 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Military personnel from the London Borough of Wandsworth Category:People from Wandsworth Category:British Army lieutenant generals Category:South Lancashire Regiment officers Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Category:Burials at Aldershot Military Cemetery Category:20th-century British Army personnel