James Everard

Sir James Everard
Official portrait (2016)
Born (1962-09-23) 23 September 1962 (age 62)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1983–2020
RankGeneral
CommandsDeputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Commander Field Army
3rd Division
20th Armoured Brigade
Queen's Royal Lancers
Battles / warsBosnian War
Iraq War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service (2)

General Sir James Rupert Everard, KCB, CBE (born 23 September 1962) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

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]

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,[14] appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in April 2000[15] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2005,[16] 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.[17] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[18]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e Blue Beret Archived 26 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine December 2000
  2. ^ "No. 49385". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1983. p. 7891.
  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. ^ "Royal British Legion Paderborn Branch". Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
  6. ^ The Defence contribution to UK national security and resilience – Defence Committee House of Commons, 27 January 2009
  7. ^ Service Appointments[dead link‍] The Times, 22 May 2009
  8. ^ Service Appointments The Times, 8 June 2011
  9. ^ Ministry of Defence and Tri-Service Senior Appointments Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "New UK Commander, Land Forces announced". Defence Viewpoints. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  11. ^ "General Sir James Everard appointed most senior UK officer in NATO – News stories – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  12. ^ Lt Gen J Everard. "Message from the Forum Patron". ArmyLGBT Forum. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  13. ^ "No. 63125". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 September 2020. p. 16374.
  14. ^ "No. 54574". The London Gazette. 8 November 1996. p. 14851.
  15. ^ "No. 55819". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 April 2000. p. 4252.
  16. ^ "No. 57665". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2005. p. 5.
  17. ^ "No. 58396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 July 2007. p. 10414.
  18. ^ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N3.
Military offices
Preceded by General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division
2009–2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Assistant Chief of the General Staff
2011–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations)
2013–2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander Land Forces
(Commander Field Army from November 2015)
2014–2016 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
2017–2020 		Succeeded by