Benjamin Nicholson White-Spunner Fc
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Barnabus William Benjamin White-Spunner
[CFT #9226]
Born: 1957
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Barney White-Spunner was commissioned into the Blues and Royals in 1979. Working his way up the ranks he was appointed Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry in 1996 and was deployed to Bosnia. In 1998 he was promoted to Colonel and became Deputy Director of Defence Policy in the Ministry of Defence during the Strategic Defence and Security Review and in 2001 he took charge of Operation Essential Harvest, which was aimed at disarming Albanian insurgents in Macedonia.

In December 2000 he had become commander of the 16 Air Assault Brigade and was given command of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in 2002 before becoming Chief of Joint Force Operations for the national contingent in the Middle East in 2003.

By 2005 he was chief of staff at Land Command and in 2007 he was appointed General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division. In February 2008 he deployed with elements of 3rd (UK) Mechanical Division to Iraq where those elements formed HQ Multinational Division (South East). He went on to be Commander of the Field Army in 2009.

He was appointed CBE in 2002 and KCB in the 2011 Birthday Honours. He retired from the Army in December 2011 and was appointed Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation in January 2012. He retired from the Countryside Alliance in 2016 and became a director of Burstock Ltd. He was appointed chairman of the advisory board of UK Fisheries in October 2018.

White-Spunner is the author of the following works:
Baily?s Hunting Companion
Our Countryside
Great days
Horse Guards
Of Living Valour
Partition.



1: 1990 Christy Edward Benjamin White-Spunnerc W/C
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