Lieutenant General Sir Simon Vincent Mayall, KBE, CB (born 7 March 1956) is a retired British Army officer and a Middle East Adviser at the Ministry of Defence.
Sir Simon Mayall | |
|---|---|
 Simon Mayall in Hohenfels, Germany in 2008 | |
| Born | 7 March 1956 |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British Army |
| Years of service | 1979–2015 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands | 1st Mechanised Brigade 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards |
| Battles / wars | Gulf War Kosovo War Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service Officer of the Legion of Merit (United States) |
Early life
editMayall was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, Balliol College, Oxford (Bachelor of Arts in Modern History, 1979) and King's College London (Master of Arts in International Relations).[1]
Military career
editMayall was commissioned into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in 1979.[2] From 1985 to 1988 he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces.[1] He was operations officer for the 1st Armoured Division in the Gulf War.[2] After that he completed a Defence Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford studying Turkish security policy.[1] He then became Commanding Officer of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards in 1997,[2] in which capacity he was deployed to the British Army Training Unit Suffield and to Northern Ireland.[1]
In 2001 Mayall became Commander of 1st Mechanised Brigade, which was subsequently deployed to Kosovo.[3] He received the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in recognition of his "distinguished services" on the deployment.[4] Mayall was the Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Corps – Iraq in late 2006 and early 2007,[2] for which he was awarded an Officer of the Legion of Merit by the United States.[5] He was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff in January 2007 and,[2] in 2009, became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations).[6] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2010 New Year Honours,[7] and made Defence Senior Advisor Middle East at the Ministry of Defence in May 2011.[8] He was replaced in that role by Lieutenant General Tom Beckett in late 2014,[9] having been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 Birthday Honours.[10][11]
Post-retirement
editIn 2015, Mayall retired from military service and joined Greenhill & Co., an investment bank, as a senior advisor.[12] On 25 February 2015, he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.[13] He retired from that post on 20 August 2021.[14]
He was appointed King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire in May 2024.[15]
References
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- ^ a b c d e Sandhurst Foundation Archived 28 December 2012 at archive.today
- ^ "KFOR: Inside KFOR". nato.int. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "No. 56920". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 April 2003. p. 5273.
- ^ "No. 58396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 July 2007. p. 10416.
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack 2010
- ^ "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 2.
- ^ Service Appointments The Times, 8 June 2011
- ^ Service appointments The Times, 1 February 2014
- ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b6.
- ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Military". The Guardian. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
- ^ Greenhill & Co., Inc. (8 September 2015). "Sir Simon Mayall Joins Greenhill as Senior Advisor in London". PR Newswire. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "No. 61158". The London Gazette. 2 March 2015. p. 3810.
- ^ "Crown Office | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk.
- ^ "No. 64397". The London Gazette. 15 May 2024. p. 9430.