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Chief of The General Staff
General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC
General Sir Richard Dannatt
was commissioned into The Green Howards from Sandhurst in 1971 and has
served with 1st Battalion The Green Howards in Northern Ireland, Cyprus
and Germany. He commanded the Battalion in the Airmobile role from 1989 –
1991. In tours away from Regimental Duty he has been a Company instructor
at Sandhurst, Chief of Staff of the 20th Armoured Brigade, Military
Assistant to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces and Colonel Higher
Command and Staff Course/Doctrine at the Staff College.
From 1994-1996 he commanded 4th Armoured Brigade. During this period he
was deployed from Germany to Bosnia as Commander Sector South West in the
final months of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and then
commanding his Brigade at the start of the Implementation Force (IFOR)
with Multinational Division (South West). From 1996-1998 he was Director
of Defence Programmes in the Ministry of Defence. He took command of 3rd
(United Kingdom) Division in January 1999, and served that year in Kosovo
as Commander British Forces. In November 2000 he was appointed Deputy
Commander Operations of the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia. He was
the Assistant Chief of the General Staff in the UK Ministry of Defence
from April 2001 to October 2002, and assumed the command of the Allied
Rapid Reaction Corps on the 15th January 2003. In March 2005 he was
appointed as the Commander-in-Chief Land Command and he assumed the
appointment of Chief of the General Staff on 29 August 2005.
In addition to his current appointment, General Sir Richard Dannatt is
Colonel Commandant of The King’s Division, The Royal Military Police and
Army Air Corps. He is President of the Army Rifle Association, and the
Soldier’s and Airmen’s Scripture Readers Association, and Vice President
of The Officers' Christian Union.
Note; General Sir Richard Dannatt’s predecessor as CGS was General Sir
Mike Jackson MBE CBE CB KCB DSO ADC Gen.
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