John Simpson (British Army officer)

Brigadier John James Hope Simpson, CBE (10 October 1927 – 7 March 2007) was a British Army officer who served as Director SAS from 1972 to 1975.

Military career[]

Educated at Queen's Royal College in Trinidad, Simpson enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in May 1945 and was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1946.^[1] He served in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency in the early 1950s, in Cyprus during terrorist campaign EOKA in the late 1950s and then commanded a small amphibious team in Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the early 1960s.^[1] He was appointed an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1965, Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces in 1969 and Director SAS in 1972.^[2] His last appointment was in 1975 as director of the team at the Defence Policy Staff who had responsibility for NATO and Europe before he retired in 1979.^[1]

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