Lt-Gen Sir Michael Willcocks, KCB, CVO

Career: cmmnd RA 1964, serv Malaya, Borneo, UK, Germany 1965-72; instr: RMA Sandhurst 1972-74, Staff Coll 1975-76; MOD 1977-79, Comd M Battery RHA 1979-80, Staff Coll Directing Staff 1981-82, CO 1 Regt RHA 1983-85, DACOS HQ UKLF 1985-87, Asst COS Intelligence/Ops HQ UKLF 1988, Cmd RA 4 Armd Div 1989-90, RCDS 1991, ACOS Land Operations Joint War HQ Gulf War (and aftermath) 1991, Dir Army Plans and Programme 1991-93, DG Land Warfare 1993-94, COS Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps 1994-96, COS Land Component of Peace Implementation Force (IFOR) Bosnia-Herzegovina 1995-96, Asst CGS 1996-99, Dep Cmd (Ops) Stabilization Force (SFOR) Bosnia-Herzegovina 1999-2000, UK mil rep NATO and EU 2000-01; Hon Col IRHA 1999-2006, Col Cmdt RA 2000-05, Representative Col Cmdt RA 2004-05; former Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Serjeant-at-Arms House of Lords and sec to the Lord Great Chamberlain 2001-09, ind reviewer Press Complaints Cmmn 2009-, sr advsr C5 Captial 2009-, dir IKOS CIF Ltd 2010-; European-Atlantic Gp 1994-; cmmr: Royal Hosp Chelsea 1996-99, The Pilgrims 2002-; vice-pres Turville Park Cricket Club 2005, hon memb Kennel Club 2006-; tstee Lifeline Energy 2006; Hon DLitt Univ of Hull; Knight Cdr Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George 2006; Meritorious Service Medal USA 1996 and 2000, Pingat Jasa Malaysia medal 2006