Richard Felton
# Richard Felton

Lieutenant General Richard Friedrich Patrick Felton, CBE is a former British Army officer who served as Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority from 2017 to 2019.

## Military career

Felton was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport on 6 September 1985. He became Commanding Officer of 9 Regiment Army Air Corps in April 2004, Chief of Staff of 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division in April 2007 and Commander of 4th Mechanized Brigade in January 2009. It was in this role that he was deployed as Commander of Task Force Helmand in April 2010. He went on to be Chief of Joint Forces Operations at Joint Forces Headquarters in March 2011 and Commander of Joint Helicopter Command in March 2014. He became Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority in April 2017.

