Jack Deverell

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Sir Jack Deverell
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Allied Forces Northern Europe from 2001 to 2004.[1]

Military career

Deverell was born in Birmingham, the son of Harold James Frank Deverell and Joan Beatrice Carter.[2] Educated at King Edward's School, Bath and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Deverell was commissioned into the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry in 1966.[3] He was selected as commanding officer of 3rd Bn The Light Infantry in 1984, serving in the UK including in Northern Ireland, before moving on to be Director of Staff at Royal Military College of Science in 1986.[3] He became Commander of the UK Mobile Force in 1988.[3]

In 1991, he took the post of Director of Army Recruiting, followed, in 1993, by the post of Director-General of Army Manning and Recruiting at the

Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[4]

He was made

Allied Forces Northern Europe in 2001; he retired in 2004.[4]

Personal life

In 1973, he married Jane Ellen Solomon: they have one son and one daughter.[3]

In retirement he became

Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2015.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
    . Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Debrett's People of Today 1994
  4. ^ a b c d Whitaker's Almanacks
  5. ^ National Army Museum Accounts 2007–2008 The Stationery Office, 2009
  6. ^ "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions: Lieutenancy of Wiltshire". 20 February 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2018.

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Preceded by Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
1995–1997 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Land Command

1997–2001 		Succeeded by
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