Bill Rollo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Lieutenant General Sir William Raoul Rollo, Script error: No such module "If empty". (born August 1955) is a former senior British Army officer.

Military career

Rollo was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve on 10 March 1977.[1] He was then granted a short service commission, as a University Candidate, in the Blues and Royals on 4 September that year.[2] His commission was subsequently confirmed and he was promoted to lieutenant, with seniority from 4 September 1975.[3] He was promoted to captain on 4 March 1980,[4] and to major on 30 September 1987.[5] On 30 June 1992, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.[6] In 1994 he became Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment and was deployed to Bosnia as part of the United Nations Protection Force.[7]

Rollo was promoted to colonel on 30 June 1996.[8] In 1998 he was appointed commander of the 4th Armoured Brigade, which was deployed to Macedonia and then to Kosovo.[7]

Rollo was promoted to brigadier on 31 December 1998, with seniority from 30 June.[9] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours,[10] and made aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II on 1 November 2000,[11] relinquishing the appointment on 28 June 2002.[12]

Rollo was deployed as General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division (South East), Iraq in July 2004 and became Assistant Chief of the General Staff in January 2005.[13] In July 2007 he was deployed again – this time as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force, Iraq.[14]

Rollo was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces in March 2008.[15] Then, in December 2009, he was made Commander Force Development and Training,[16] and in 2010 he was made Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel and Training).[17] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2010 New Year Honours.[18]

Between 2013 and 2023 Rollo was vice-chairman of the Commonwealth of Nations Graves Commission.[19]

In 2023, Rollo was made chair of trustees for The Tank Museum.[20]

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  7. ↑ a b Biography at the Ministry of Defence Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  9. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  11. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  13. ↑ Ministry of Defence: Delivering digital tactical communications through the Bowman CIP Programme Public Accounts Committee, 27 February 2007
  14. ↑ Multi National Force-Iraq 31 October 2007
  15. ↑ AFFScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
  16. ↑ Army conducts top level organisational review Script error: No such module "webarchive". Defence News, 9 December 2009
  17. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 2011
  18. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  19. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  20. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Military offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check General Officer Commanding
Multi-National Division (South East), Iraq
July – November 2004 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Assistant Chief of the General Staff
2005–2007 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Senior British Military Representative
and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force, Iraq
2007–2008 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Adjutant General
2008–2009 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
New command Commander Force Development and Training
2009–2010 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel and Training)
2010–2013 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Bill_Rollo&oldid=8851219"