General John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond, is a retired senior British Army officer and former Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the British Armed Forces. He was appointed CDS in July 2013, following the retirement of General Sir David Richards. He served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and later became Commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland. He deployed as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq during the Iraq War. Later, he became Chief of Joint Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters and served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff until assuming the position of CDS. Houghton retired from the British Army in July 2016, and was succeeded as CDS by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach.
Lieutenant General Robin Vaughan Brims, is a retired British Army officer. He was Commander of the Field Army at Land Command from 2005 to 2007.
General Sir Gordon Kenneth Messenger, is a senior Royal Marines officer who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from May 2016 to May 2019. As a colonel he commanded 40 Commando during the Iraq War, and led the Commando in the assault on the Al-Faw Peninsula. He served as British Commander of Task Force Helmand, during the 3 Commando Brigade deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Operation Herrick IX from 2008 to 2009.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart William Peach, is a senior Royal Air Force officer. After training as a navigator, Peach commanded IX (Bomber) Squadron and then became Deputy Station Commander RAF Bruggen. He was deployed as NATO Air Commander (Forward) in Kosovo in 2000. He went on to be Chief of Defence Intelligence in 2006, Chief of Joint Operations in 2009 and the first Commander of Joint Forces Command in December 2011 before being appointed Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in May 2013. Peach succeeded General Sir Nick Houghton as Chief of the Defence Staff on 14 July 2016. He succeeded General Petr Pavel as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee on 29 June 2018.
General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue, KCB, CBE is a retired British Army officer and former Chief of Defence Materiel. He retired from the service in December 2010, being succeeded as Chief of Defence Materiel by Bernard Gray.
General Sir James Rupert Everard, is a senior British Army officer who serves as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
General Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, is a Kenyan-born senior British Army officer. He served as commanding officer of 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets in which role he was deployed to Bosnia in 1998 and Kosovo in 1999. After service in Afghanistan, he took command of 20th Armoured Brigade in 2004 and commanded British forces in Basra. He was subsequently appointed General Officer Commanding 6th Division, which was deployed to Afghanistan with Carter as Commander ISAF Regional Command South, before he became Director-General Land Warfare. After that he became Deputy Commander Land Forces in which role he was the main architect of the Army 2020 concept. Following a tour as Deputy Commander, International Security Assistance Force, he assumed the position of Commander Land Forces in November 2013. In September 2014, he became head of the British Army as Chief of the General Staff succeeding General Sir Peter Wall. In June 2018 he succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach as Chief of the Defence Staff.
General Sir Richard Lawson Barrons, is a retired British Army officer. He was Commander Joint Forces Command from April 2013 until his retirement in April 2016.
Lieutenant General Sir James Benjamin "Jim" Dutton, is a retired Royal Marines officer and former Governor of Gibraltar. He held various staff positions in his early career, before commanding 40 Commando. As a brigadier, he held two high-level staff posts—the first at the Ministry of Defence in London, as Director of NATO policy, and the second as a British liaison to The Pentagon shortly after the September 11 attacks, where he was involved in the planning for the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. A newspaper later pinpointed this as the moment when Dutton's career "took off".
Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton is a British Army officer. He is the UK Military Representative to NATO.
Lieutenant General Timothy Paul Evans, is a British Army officer who served as Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.
Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis, is a senior Royal Marines officer. He was Commandant General Royal Marines from December 2011 to June 2014. He was the Deputy Commander of NATO's Allied Land Command at Izmir, Turkey. He became Governor of Gibraltar in January 2016.
General Sir Mark Alexander Popham Carleton-Smith, is a senior British Army officer who has previously served as Director Special Forces. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2018, succeeding General Sir Nick Carter.
Lieutenant General Sir David Andrew Capewell, is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as Chief of Joint Operations from 2011 to 2015.
Lieutenant General Stuart Richard Skeates, is a British Army officer. He currently serves as Deputy Commander JFC Brunssum since December 2018. He served as Standing Joint Force Commander from 2015 to 2018.
Lieutenant General Sir Mark William Poffley, is a senior British Army officer. He was Commander Force Development and Capability (2014–15), Deputy Chief of the General Staff (2015), and Deputy Chief of Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence (2016–18).
Major General Julian Richard Free is a retired British Army officer who served as commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College.
General Patrick Nicholas Yardley Monrad Sanders, is a senior British Army officer. He currently serves as Commmander Joint Forces Command.
Major General Nicholas Welch OBE is a British Army officer who served as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff.
Major General Robert Andrew Magowan, is a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2016 to 2017. He currently serves as the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff.
