Nick Cowley

Nick Cowley
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service2000 – Present
RankMajor-General
CommandsQueen's Royal Hussars
16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team
Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Battles / warsKosovo War
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire

Major-General Nicholas David Guise Cowley, OBE is a senior British Army officer who has been serving as the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since October 2024.

Military career

Cowley was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Hussars on 22 September 1997[1] and was deployed during the Kosovo War and the Iraq War. He was wounded during a tour in Afghanistan in 2013 and was deployed to Iraq again in 2016. He became commanding officer of the Queen's Royal Hussars in Germany in 2017, military assistant to the Chief of the General Staff in 2019, and commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team in 2021.[2] He was promoted major general on 18 October 2024,[3] as he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[4]

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours[5] and advanced to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours.[6]

References

  1. ^ "No. 54943". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 November 1997. p. 12648.
  2. ^ "Brigadier Nick Cowley OBE". Defence IQ. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  3. ^ "No. 64584". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 December 2024. p. 24502.
  4. ^ "Leadership and Mission Command; Centre for Army Leadership Annual Conference 2024" (PDF). British Army. p. 4. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  5. ^ "No. 61256". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2015. p. B7.
  6. ^ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N6.
Military offices
Preceded by Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
2024–present 		Incumbent