Robert Pascoe
Sir Robert Alan Pascoe, is a retired British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1988 to 1990.
Army career
Educated at Tavistock Grammar School and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Pascoe was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1952. He served with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry in the Suez Canal Zone, Osnabrück and in the Cyprus Emergency; including with the 1st Green Jackets from November 1958 to May 1959. Following which he served in Lebanon where he learned Arabic. He served with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets in the United Kingdom and Malaysia from 1964 to 1966, and was mentioned in despatches when serving in Borneo in 1966. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1968, when commanding a company of the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets in the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.Pascoe commanded the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets in the British Army of the Rhine and on two tours in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1974, and was mentioned in despatches in Northern Ireland in 1974. He went on to command 5 Field Force in BAOR from 1976 to 1979. While attending the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1979 he was sent to Northern Ireland to work on special duty with Sir Maurice Oldfield. He was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff in 1980, Chief of Staff UKLF at Wilton, in 1983, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland in 1985, and became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath that same year. He was promoted to general in 1988 on appointment to the role of Adjutant General, from which post he retired in 1990.
His honorary posts included being Colonel Commandant of the 1st Battalion The Royal Green Jackets from 1986 to 1991 and ADC General to HM The Queen from 1989 to 1991.