General Keith Spacie – career biography main postings
1953 Basic training
1954 - Aug 55 Sandhurst cadet
55-56 Training post Sandhurst (YO courses) (Royal Lincolnshire)
Feb 56-58 Platoon Commander Malaya (MID)
November 1958 Seconded to the Parachute Regiment
December 58 Aden (8 week tour with Lincolnshires)
Autumn 59-61 Parachute regiment selection and training
1960 Transfer to Parachute Regiment
1960-61 3 PARA Aldershot
late 61-62 3 PARA Bahrain (8 months)
1962 NATO training exercise in Greece
1962 Staff officer (Adjutant at Aldershot Depot)
Jan 1964 Command of 16th (Lincoln) Independent Company – Pathfinder
Sept 1965-1966 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 16th Parachute Brigade DAA and QMG
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
October 1972 Course at National Defence College, Latimer
March 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)
May 1976- Sep 78 SHAPE (Special Assistant to Chief of Staff) 2.5 year posting
1979 Instructor at National Defence College, Latimer
Dec 79-Jan 81 Commander 7 Field Force Colchester (Brigadier direct from Lt Col)
1982 Royal College of Defence Studies (promoted to Major General)
March 83 Trips to Asia (2 months)
April 1983 - June 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
Source:
Kindly submitted by Clare Spacie (wife of Maj Gen Keith Spacie)
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