Roy Bucher

Sir Roy Bucher
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Governor General of the Dominion of India, and Baldev Singh India's first Defense Minister along with service chiefs General Roy Bucher, Air Marshall Thomas Elmhirst and Admiral Edward Parry in 1948
Born	31 August 1895
Died	5 January 1980 (aged 84)
Allegiance	United Kingdom  British India  India
Service/branch	British Army  British Indian Army  Indian Army
Years of service	1914–1949
Rank	General
Commands held	12th Cavalry (Frontier Force) Indian Cavalry Training Centre Eastern Command (India) Indian Army
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Military Cross

General Sir (Francis Robert) Roy Bucher KBE CB MC (31 August 1895 – 5 January 1980) was a British soldier who became the second Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and the final non-Indian to hold the top post of the Indian Army after Partition.

Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant into the Unattached List for the Indian Army, 15 August 1914. He was attached to the 1st Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in France from 1914 to 1915 from where he transferred to the 55th Cokes Rifles in India. Confirmed as a second lieutenant in the Indian Army on 5 September 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant on 15 November 1916 (back-dated to 1 September 1915 on 17 August 1917)

He transferred to the 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers in 1916, and was promoted to acting captain on 23 May 1917, again receiving the rank from 16 October 1917, and was promoted to the substantive rank of captain on 15 August 1918.

After the War he served in Afghanistan and Waziristan, for which he was awarded a Military Cross (MC) on 1 January 1920. and then went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1926. He was appointed a General Staff Officer 3rd Grade from 7 July 1929 to 15 June 1931 then Deputy Assistant Adjutant General from 16 June 1931 to 6 April 1933 for the Deccan District in India. He was promoted to major on 15 August 1932, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel on 1 July 1937.