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Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and took part against the Arab Resistance in Palestine.
Learn about the life and career of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who led British forces in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. Discover his achievements, challenges, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
General Templer was appointed as High Commissioner and Director of Operations in February 1952, following the murder in October 1951 by Communist insurgents of the previous High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, on his way up to Fraser's Hill from Kuala Lumpur.
Learn about the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), a successful counter-insurgency operation by British and Commonwealth forces against communist guerrillas. Find out how General Sir Gerald Templer, the Director of Operations and High Commissioner, won the 'hearts and minds' of the population and defeated the insurgency.
Sir Gerald Templer, the penultimate High Commissioner and Director of Operations, Malaya, 1952–4? By giving a positive, though conditional, answer, Dr Leon Comber set himself up for the task of writing the life of General Templer and his time as chief administrator in Malaya.
As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 and 1958, Templer was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum.
At the outbreak of World War II, he was a Major, acting Lieutenant Colonel, at the War Office, London, and in September 1939, he served as an intelligence officer at the headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in France under Major General Sir F.N. Mason-Macfarlane.
