Nick Cowley | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | British Army |
Years of service | 2000 – Present |
Rank | Major-General |
Commands | Queen's Royal Hussars 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Battles / wars | Kosovo War Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Major-General Nicholas David Guise Cowley, OBE is a senior British Army officer who has been serving as the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since October 2024.
Cowley was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Hussars on 22 September 1997 [1] and was deployed during the Kosovo War and the Iraq War. He was wounded during a tour in Afghanistan in 2013 and was deployed to Iraq again in 2016. He became commanding officer of the Queen's Royal Hussars in Germany in 2017, military assistant to the Chief of the General Staff in 2019, and commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team in 2021. [2] He was promoted major general on 18 October 2024, [3] as he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. [4]
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours [5] and advanced to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours. [6]
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