Major-General Timothy Paul Evans MBE

Order of the British Empire

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 DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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, known as Tim Evans, is a British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 officer who currently serves as Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

Military career

Evans was commissioned into the Light Infantry

The Light Infantry

The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. It was formed on 10 July 1968 as a "large regiment" by the amalgamation of the four remaining light infantry regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade:...

 in 1982. He was appointed Commanding Officer

Commanding officer

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 of 1st Bn the Light Infantry

The Light Infantry

The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. It was formed on 10 July 1968 as a "large regiment" by the amalgamation of the four remaining light infantry regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade:...

 in 2001 after which he became Chief of Staff at Headquarters 3rd (UK) Division which was deployed to Southern Iraq

Iraq

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. He was made Commander of 19th Light Brigade in 2005 which was deployed to Iraq in 2006. He became Chief of Joint Force Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters Northwood

Permanent Joint Headquarters

The Permanent Joint Headquarters is the British tri-service headquarters from where all overseas military operations are planned and controlled. It is situated at Northwood Headquarters in Northwood, London....

 in 2008 and Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ('ARRC') in 2009. The ARRC was deployed to Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 in January 2011 with Evans taking over as Chief of Staff at ISAF

International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement...

 Joint Command. From April 2012 he will be Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.