James Illingworth
Major General Illingworth in 2017
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1989–2022
RankMajor General
Commands heldBritish Forces Cyprus
No. 657 Squadron AAC
Battles/warsIraq War
War in Afghanistan
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire

Major General James Timothy Edward Illingworth, OBE is a former senior British Army officer. He served as Commander of British Forces Cyprus from 2017 to 2019.

Military career

Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and the University of Leicester, Illingworth was commissioned into the Army Air Corps in 1989.[1] He became commanding officer of No. 657 Squadron AAC in August 2001 and went on to be a staff officer in the Directorate of Joint Commitments at the Ministry of Defence in 2003, Deputy Commander, Joint Helicopter Command in December 2010 and senior military attaché at the British Defence Staff – US in Washington, D.C. in August 2013.[1]

llingworth became Deputy Commander, 1st (United Kingdom) Division in August 2016 and Commander, British Forces Cyprus in February 2017.[2] He was replaced by Major General Robert Thomson on 25 September 2019.[3] Illingworth was appointed Director Land Warfare Centre in October 2019.[4] He retired in April 2022.[5]

Illingworth was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 New Year Honours.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "James Illingworth". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ministry of Defence and Senior Tri-Service Appointments" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "No. 62784". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 October 2019. p. 17508.
  4. ↑ Mackie, Colin (21 November 2019). "Generals November 2019" (PDF). gulabin.com. Colin Mackie. Retrieved 21 November 2019. Major-General James T.E. Illingworth(late Army Air Corps): Director, Land Warfare, October 2019
  5. ↑ "No. 63685". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 May 2022. p. 8325.
  6. ↑ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2008. p. 5.
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