Military Career
Educated at Downside School and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, David Mostyn was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1949. He was mentioned in despatches for helping to suppress the Brunei Revolt in 1962. In 1969 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets and was deployed to BAOR and Northern Ireland. In 1972 he went on to command 8 Infantry Brigade. In 1980 he became Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin and in 1983 he was appointed Military Secretary. He went on to be Adjutant General in 1986 retiring from the British Army in 1989.
He was made an ADC General to the Queen in 1987.
He was awarded the MBE in 1962, the CBE in 1974 and the KCB in 1984.
In retirement he became Chairman of the Lyme Regis Hospital Trust.
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