Detailed service history of Gen. Keith Spacie

General Keith Spacie – career biography main postings

1953                        Basic training

Feb-Aug 55             Sandhurst cadet

55-56                       Training post Sandhurst (YO courses)

Feb 56-58                Malaya (MID)

December 58           P Company  Aden (8 week tour)

Autumn 59-61          Parachute regiment selection and training

1960                        Transfer to Parachute Regiment

1960-61                   3 Para Aldershot

late 61-62                 Bahrain (8 months)

1962                         NATO training exercise in Greece

1962                         Staff officer (Adjutant at Aldershot Depot)

Jan 1964                  Command of TA company in Lincoln – Pathfinder

Sept 1965                 Shrivenham staff college

1966                          Year at Staff college Camberley

1966                          Company Commander training with 3 Para in Aldershot

1966 and 1967          Training exercises in Libya and Mt Kenya

1968-70                     Member of brigade staff

1970                          Company Commander at Sandhurst

1971                          Chief Instructor role at Sandhurst

1972 (or 71?)             In the Summer acted as a replacement at short notice in NI working with Geoffrey Howlett 2 Para

Autumn 1972             Latimer

1973                           Appointed Lt Col to command 3 PARA in NI (4 month tour)

1974                           2nd NI tour (4 months)

1975                           Far East Jungle training in Malaya (2 months)

Summer 1975            MOD Main Building conducting a study (6 months)

Summer 76-78           SHAPE (COS to SACEUR General Haig) 2.5 yar posting

1979                           Staff Member Latimer

Dec 79-Jan 81           Commander 7 Field Force Colchester (Brigadier direct from Lt Col)

1982                          RCDS (promoted to Major General)

March 83                   Trips to Asia (2 months)

1983-84                     Military Commissioner Falkland Islands (14 months)

1984                          Led RCDS Far East Tour and visited Gambia as Army rep on training

Dec 84                       Director Army Training

Aug 87                       Left the army

87-89                         Cranfield University

89 onwards                Leadership consultancy work

1990 onwards several longitudinal combat stress studies on soldiers in NI conducted with Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell