Chris Brown (British Army officer)

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Chris Brown
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Brown in 2009
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1974–2010
RankLieutenant General
Commands held7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Northern Ireland
Battles/warsBosnian War
Iraq War
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Lieutenant General Christopher Charles Brown CBE is a retired British Army officer who was the last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.

Military career[]

Educated at Brentwood School and University College, Cardiff, Brown was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974.[1]

In 1994 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.[1] He then went to Sarajevo as Assistant Chief of Staff for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps during the Bosnian War.[1] In 1999 he was appointed Commander Royal Artillery for 1st Armoured Division and in 2002 he became Director, Royal Artillery.[1] In 2004 he returned to Allied Rapid Reaction Corps as Chief of Staff.[1] He became the last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland in 2008:[1] The post was downgraded to that of a Brigadier when Brown left in 2009.[2] In March 2009 he was deployed as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force, Iraq[3] and in 2010 he became the Iraq Compendium Study Team Leader.[4] He retired from the Army in 2010.[5]

Later life[]

After retiring from military service, Brown worked as an advisor to the African Union on security for the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum. He now works for the Brenthurst Foundation, an NGO, and lectures on diplomacy at the University of London.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Oxford Leverhulme Programme Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Army presence scaled back in Northern Ireland The Independent, 8 December 2008
  3. ^ Royal Navy Pull-out leaves Iraq oil exposed Archived 30 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine Evening Standard, 3 June 2009
  4. ^ Whitaker's Almanack 2011
  5. ^ a b "ChrisBrown". The Brenthurst Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
Military offices
Preceded by General Officer Commanding the British Army in Northern Ireland
2008–2009 		Succeeded by
Command disbanded
Preceded by Senior British Military Representative
and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force, Iraq
March 2009 – July 2009 		Succeeded by
Force disbanded
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