Duke of Westminster
The Current Duke (6th Duke of Westminster) is Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor.
The title Duke of Westminster was created by Queen Victoria in 1874 and bestowed upon Richard Grosvenor, the 3rd Marquess of Westminster.
Duke of Westminster, RAC and the Army
Gerald Grosvenor joined the Territorial Army in 1970 as a trooper having failed the officer entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. After long service and becoming an officer, including commanding ‘C’ squadron (The Cheshire Yeomanry) and his regiment, The Queen’s Own Yeomanry, Gerald Grosvenor became Honorary Colonel-in-Chief of several regiments, including The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry, 7th Regt. Army Air Corps, and the Canadian Royal Westminster Regiment and Colonel Commandant Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps.
In 2004 he was appointed to the new post of Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets) with promotion to the rank of Major General. The Duke was the first reservist holding such rank since the 1930s. In 2007, he was succeeded in this post by Major General Simon Lalor. In the 2008 Birthday Honours he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his military service
Duke of Westminster’s Honorary military appointments:
- Colonel-in-Chief The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry Colonel-in-Chief 7th Regt
- Army Air Corps Colonel-in-Chief
- Canadian Royal Westminster Regiment Colonel
- Commandant Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps.
- Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets)
- Major General
- Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Royal Yeomanry and Iraq medals
January 2003, the Royal Yeomanry deployed two of its squadrons, A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) and W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadrons, for the Iraq war as part of the Joint NBC Regiment. It was the first mobilisation of a Territorial Army unit as a formed body (TA soldiers under TA command) for combat operations since the Suez crisis in 1956.
Soldiers of the Royal Yeomanry being awarded their Iraq medals by the Duke of Westminster in Sennelager
In recognition of its service in the liberation of Iraq, the Royal Yeomanry was presented with the battle honour ‘Iraq 2003’ on 11 November 2005, the first and so far the only battle honour presented to a TA unit since the Second World War.
All five squadrons of the Royal Yeomanry continue to send soldiers and officers on operations to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature
This special annual award was created with the support of The Duke of Westminster.
The Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature started in 1997. Each year the award is presented to a book by a living author, regardless of nationality, gender or age, who makes a notable and original contribution to the study of international and national security and defence.
Duke of Westminster presenting the Medal for Military Literature to 2009's winner Sir Lawrence Freedman
Recent winners of Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature
- 2011 – Afgantsy by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
- 2010 – D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
- 2009 – A Choice of Enemies America Confronts the Middle East by Sir Lawrence Freedman
- 2008 – Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
- 2007 – Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
- 2006 – The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
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