Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid

Early military career

Abdul Rahman was commissioned to second lieutenant on 11 December 1958 and posted to 3rd Battalion, Royal Malay Regiment.^[5]

During his early military career, he served at multiple positions, such as training officer at the Federation Military College in 1964, second-in-command of company at the 9th Battalion, Royal Malay Regiment in 1965, staff officer at East Malaysia Army Command HQ in 1967, aide-de-camp for 4th Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Abdul Hamid Bidin and later as commanding officer of 12th Battalion, Royal Malay Regiment in 1970, deputy director of Joint Intelligence Directorate in 1972 and 1977, defence attaché in Philippines in 1975, and commander of Recruit Training Centre, Port Dickson in early 1980.^[6]

Rise to flag rank and get top command

Abdul Rahman got rank promotion to brigadier general and appointed as commander of 4th Infantry Brigade in late 1980.^[9]

Several years later, he appointed as director of Department of Military Intelligence before he transferred to the Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters to took charge the Assistant Chief of Staff of Operations and got rank promotion to major general in October 1985.^[10]

In January 1987, he took charge commander of 2nd Infantry Division, and then he got rank promotion to lieutenant general and appointed as Chief of Staff of the Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters three years later.^[11][12]

On 11 April 1992, he appointed as 12th Chief of Malaysian Army, following his predecessor Yaacob Mohd Zain who appointed as 10th Chief of Defence Forces and he automatically got rank promotion to general.^[4]

On 23 February 1993, the Minister of Defence at the time, Najib Razak announced that Abdul Rahman would be the 11th Chief of Defence Forces, following the end of military service extension of his predecessor, Yaacob Mohd Zain on 31 May in the same year.^[5] Abdul Rahman officially took over the post on 4 March 1993.^[1]

He held until ended his military service extension on 1 February 1994 and he passed the baton to his successor, Borhan Ahmad on the same day.^[2]

Post military career

On 6 May 1994, Abdul Rahman appointed as acting Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang following temporary off duty of the incumbent, Hamdan Sheikh Tahir to undergo coronary bypass surgery.^[11] He held the post until 14 June 1994.^[13]

Family

Abdul Rahman was married Rosilah binti Ahmad and had four children with her.^[14]

Death

Abdul Rahman was died at 2:15 AM on 2 June 2022, at Tuanku Mizan Military Hospital, Kuala Lumpur due to a bacterial infection in his lungs. Then in the afternoon, he was buried at Raudhatul Sakinah Muslim Cemetery in Sungai Besi.^[14][15]