Tony Raper


Anthony John Raper CB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career

Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Tony Raper was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1970. He was deployed to Bosnia where he provided communications support for the Implementation Force in 1995.
In 1998 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Defence Communications Services Agency.
In 2001 he moved to the Defence Logistics Organisation where he became Director-General for Strategy & Logistic Development: then in 2002 he was promoted to Defence Logistics Transformation Team Leader as well as Quartermaster-General to the Forces. He retired in 2006.
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals.