Julian Free
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1987–
RankMajor General
Commands held26th Regiment Royal Artillery
4th Mechanized Brigade
Joint Services Command and Staff College
Battles/warsGulf War
Kosovo War
Sierra Leone Civil War
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Major General Julian Richard Free CBE is a retired British Army officer who served as commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Military career

Free was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 5 September 1986.[1] He became commanding officer of 26th Regiment Royal Artillery in July 2003 and commander of 4th Mechanized Brigade in April 2007, in which role he was deployed with his brigade to Iraq.[2] He went on to be the Chief of the Defence Staff's liaison officer for Afghanistan in November 2009, director of the Campaign & Transition Assessment Group in Afghanistan in January 2011 and chief of staff of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in April 2012.[3] He was appointed commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College in August 2014.[4]

Free was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 Birthday Honours,[5] advanced to Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year Honours[6] and advanced again to Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his service in Iraq in the March 2009.[7]

Free is the current Deputy Vice Chancellor of People Services and Operations at the University of Lincoln.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 50696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1948. p. 13872.
  2. ↑ "Iraq 'ready for UK pull-out soon'". BBC. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "ARRC completes next step in road to 2013 NRF Readiness". NATOaccessdate=16 August 2014. May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Senior Ministry of Defence Appointments" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "No. 56237". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2001. p. 6.
  6. ↑ "No. 57855". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2005. p. 5.
  7. ↑ "No. 58999". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 March 2009. p. 4085.
  8. ↑ "Mr Julian Free, Deputy Vice Chancellor, People Services and Operations". University of Lincoln. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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