Simon Mayall

Sir Simon Mayall

Simon Mayall in Hohenfels, Germany in 2008
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 1979 – 2015
Rank Lieutenant General
Commands held 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
1st Mechanised Brigade
Battles/wars Gulf War
Kosovo War
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant General Sir Simon Vincent Mayall KBE, CB (born 7 March 1956) is a retired British Army officer and a Middle East Adviser at the Ministry of Defence.

Early life

Mayall was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, Balliol College, Oxford (BA Modern History, 1979) and King's College London (MA International Relations).[1]

Military career

Mayall was commissioned into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in 1979.[2] From 1985 to 1988 he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces.[1] He was operations officer for 1st Armoured Division in the first Gulf War.[2] After that he completed a Defence Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford studying Turkish security policy.[1] He then became Commanding Officer of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards in 1997[2] in which capacity he was deployed to the British Army Training Unit Suffield and to Northern Ireland.[1]

In 2001 Mayall became Commander of 1st Mechanised Brigade which was subsequently deployed to Kosovo.[3] He was the Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Corps – Iraq in late 2006 and early 2007.[2] He was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff in January 2007[2] and in 2009 became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations).[4] He was made Defence Senior Advisor Middle East at the Ministry of Defence in May 2011.[5] He will be replaced in that role by Lieutenant General Tom Beckett in late 2014.[6]

Post-Retirement

In 2015, Mayall retired from military service and joined Greenhill & Co., an investment bank, as a senior advisor.[7]

Honours and decorations

Mayall was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2010 New Year Honours,[8] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours.[9][10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "KFOR: Basic Information:". nato.int. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Sandhurst Foundation
  3. "KFOR: Inside KFOR:". nato.int. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  4. Whitaker's Almanack 2010
  5. Service Appointments The Times, 8 June 2011
  6. Service appointments The Times, 1 February 2014
  7. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (8 September 2015). "Sir Simon Mayall Joins Greenhill as Senior Advisor in London". prnewswire.com. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  8. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59282. p. 2. 31 December 2009.
  9. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b6. 14 June 2014.
  10. "Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Military". The Guardian. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
Military offices
Preceded by
Peter Everson
Deputy Commanding General Multi-National Corps – Iraq
2006–2007
Succeeded by
Gerald Berragan
Preceded by
Bill Rollo
Assistant Chief of the General Staff
2007–2009
Succeeded by
James Bucknall
Preceded by
Sir Peter Wall
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations)
2009–2011
Succeeded by
Richard Barrons
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