Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt

What strikes me about Richard Dannatt is the arc from a junior platoon commander in Belfast to head of the entire British Army. His first posting dropped him into one of the most dangerous theatres of the Troubles, and the 1973 Military Cross tells me he led from the front rather than from a desk. I respect officers who earn their stripes under fire before they earn their politics, and Dannatt clearly did. His later seat in the House of Lords feels less like a reward than a continuation of service. To me he reads as a soldier's soldier who never quite stopped being one.

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Name (English)

Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・ダナット

Reading

りちゃーど・だなっと

Born

December 23, 1950 (age 75)

Origin

Broomfield, United Kingdom

Occupation

military officer / commander-in-chief

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

University

Durham University

Awards & achievements

• 1973 Military Cross
• 2008 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
• 1996 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2004 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dannatt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336366

Tags

• military officer
• commander-in-chief

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.