Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Alan Fyffe KBE CB DSO MC (12 August 1912 – 24 December 1972) was Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence).
Military career
Fyffe was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in 1932.
He served in World War II initially as a General Staff Officer and then with his regiment in North Africa and Italy. He earned his Military Cross as a company commander with 10th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Tower Hamlets Rifles) in Tunisia in 1943. After a short period commanding a battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment he returned to command 10th Rifle Brigade and later 2nd Rifle Brigade through the Italian Campaign. He temporarily commanded 61st Infantry Brigade early in 1945, and on 3 May 1945 he went blindfolded behind enemy lines to negotiate the surrender of a German corps. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order at the end of the war.
After the War he joined the Directing Staff at the Staff College, Camberley before moving to General Headquarters, Far East Land Forces in 1947. He was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office in 1950 and then Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Rifle Brigade in 1953. He was made Commander of 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade in 1955 and Commander of 11th Infantry Brigade in 1956.
