Geoffrey Armitage

Major-General Geoffrey Thomas Alexander Armitage (5 July 1917 – 23 June 1996) was a British Army officer.

Military career
Educated at Haileybury, Armitage was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 26 August 1937 and served as a war substantive captain in the Second World War. He became Commandant, Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1962, Chief of Staff, I (British) Corps in 1966 and General Officer Commanding, North East District in August 1970 before retiring in January 1973.