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Retired Glasgow University medical graduate and consultant in public health with Regular and TA airborne service as well as UK and BAOR command and staff employment.
Honorary Colonel 144 Parachute Medical Squadron 2013 - 2018.
Colonel Commandant RAMC 2008-2013. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Gardening Leave, a mental health charity for ex-service personnel 2012-2014. Chairman of the RAMC Charity Board of Trustees 2010-2013. Chairman Airborne Alliance Glasgow Branch 2018 - to date. Chairman RAMC Association 2019 - to date.
A Queen's Honorary Physician 2000-04 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire since 2009.
Service History
- 1967 Glasgow University OTC (Officer Cadet)
- 1969 The 15th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (15 PARA SV) (Officer Cadet)
- 1970 144 Para Fd Amb (V) (Second Lieutenant)
- 1974 The 15th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (15 PARA SV) (Lieutenant)
- 1975 23 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC (Captain)
- 1975 The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) (Captain)
- 1977 PCT, 6 Fd Force Fd Amb (Captain)
- 1978 PCT, 6 Fd Force Fd Amb (Local Major)
- 1980 HQ 4 Armd Div (Major)
- 1982 Army Staff College (Major)
- 1984 5 Airborne Brigade (Major)
- 1985 Defence Medical Services Directorate, MOD (Major)
- 1987 4 Armd Fd Amb (Lieutenant-Colonel)
- 1990 HS RAM College (Glasgow University) (Lieutenant-Colonel)
- 1992 Defence Medical Services Directorate, MOD (Lieutenant-Colonel)
- 1993 Army Medical Directorate (Colonel)
- 1996 HQ 1 Armd Div (Colonel)
- 1998 Permanent Joint HQ (Colonel)
- 2000 HQ Land Command (Brigadier)
- 2002 HQ Defence Medical Training Agency (Brigadier)
- 2002 Colonel Commandant RAMC (RHQ RAMC) (Brigadier)
