General Sir Richard Brooking Trant, KCB, DL was an officer in the British Army. He was Land Deputy Commander in the Falklands War, and served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1983 to 1986.
Military career
Trant was born in Thurlestone in south Devon and educated at Newquay Grammar School. He attended the Bangalore Officer Training School in 1947, receiving an emergency commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Trant married, Diana Clare Edwards (known as "Tink"), in 1957. They had a son and two daughters. He was survived by his wife and their three children. ==References==