James Everard

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Career

Educated at Uppingham School,[1] Everard was commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers in June 1983.[2] In 1995, as Chief of Staff, 4th Armoured Brigade, he was deployed to the United Nations Protection Force HQ, Sector South-West, and subsequently as part of the leading UK element of the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia.[1] Then in 1999 he became Military Assistant to the Commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR).[1] He became Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Lancers in September 2000 and deployed as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.[1]

In December 2005 he became Commander of 20th Armoured Brigade[3] in which capacity he was deployed to Basra in Iraq where he made an attempt to target corruption.[3] The brigade left Basra in November 2006[4] and returned to their home of Paderborn in Germany.[5] He was appointed Director Commitments at Land Command in 2007,[6] General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Division in 2009[7] and Assistant Chief of the General Staff in April 2011.[8] He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations) in March 2013[9] and became Commander Land Forces in September 2014 (post renamed Commander Field Army in November 2015).[10] In March 2017 he was appointed as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) and was promoted to the rank of general.[11] Everard served as Patron of the Army LGBT Forum from 2010.[12]

Everard retired from the British Army on 23 September 2020.[13]

He was appointed Colonel of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) on 31 December 2024.[14]

Personal life

He is married to Caroline and has three children.[1]

Honours

Everard was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in November 1996,[15] appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in April 2000[16] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2005,[17] and awarded a second Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in July 2007 for his work commanding 20th Armoured Brigade during Operation Telic 8 in Iraq.[18] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[19]

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References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Blue Beret Script error: No such module "webarchive". December 2000
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  3. ↑ a b Basra Commander targets corruption In the news, 8 May 2006
  4. ↑ Did the Brits Lose Southern Iraq? Time Magazine, 22 February 2006
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ The Defence contribution to UK national security and resilience – Defence Committee House of Commons, 27 January 2009
  7. ↑ Service AppointmentsScript error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore The Times, 22 May 2009
  8. ↑ Service Appointments The Times, 8 June 2011
  9. ↑ Ministry of Defence and Tri-Service Senior Appointments Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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Military offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division
2009–2011 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Assistant Chief of the General Staff
2011–2013 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations)
2013–2014 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Commander Land Forces
(Commander Field Army from November 2015)
2014–2016 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
2017–2020 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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