Lieutenant General Sir Richard George Collingwood KBE CB DSO (7 October 1903 – 21 April 1986) was a British Army General during the 1950s.
Educated at West Downs School,[2] Collingwood was commissioned into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1923.[3]
He served during the Second World War, in the Middle East and Burma and was Commander of 23rd Infantry Brigade in Burma in 1945.[3] He went on to be General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division and Lowland District between 1952 and 1955.[3] He then became Commander Singapore District from 1957.[3] In 1958 he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle; he retired in 1961.[3]
George Collingwood's papers have been archived at Lilburn Tower,[4] his family home in Northumberland.[3]