Sir James Everard
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Official portrait (2016)
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| Born | (1962-09-23) 23 September 1962 (age 61) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Years of service | 1983–2020 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Commander Field Army 3rd Division 20th Armoured Brigade Queen's Royal Lancers |
| Battles/wars | Bosnian War Iraq War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service (2) |
General Sir James Rupert Everard, KCB, CBE (born 23 September 1962) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
Educated at Uppingham School,[1] Everard was commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers in June 1983.[2] In 1995, as Chief of Staff, 4th Armoured Brigade, he was deployed to the United Nations Protection Force HQ, Sector South-West, and subsequently as part of the leading UK element of the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia.[1] Then in 1999 he became Military Assistant to the Commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR).[1] He became Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Lancers in September 2000 and deployed as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.[1]
In December 2005 he became Commander of 20th Armoured Brigade[3] in which capacity he was deployed to BasrainIraq where he made an attempt to target corruption.[3] The brigade left Basra in November 2006[4] and returned to their home of PaderborninGermany.[5] He was appointed Director Commitments at Land Command in 2007,[6] General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Division in 2009[7] and Assistant Chief of the General Staff in April 2011.[8] He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations) in March 2013[9] and became Commander Land Forces in September 2014 (post renamed Commander Field Army in November 2015).[10] In March 2017 he was appointed as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) and was promoted to the rank of general.[11] Everard served as Patron of the Army LGBT Forum from 2010.[12]
Everard retired from the British Army on 23 September 2020.[13]
He is married to Caroline and has three children.[1]
Everard was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in November 1996,[14] appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in April 2000[15] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2005,[16] and awarded a second Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in July 2007 for his work commanding 20th Armoured Brigade during Operation Telic 8 in Iraq.[17] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[18]
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| Preceded by | General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division 2009–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Assistant Chief of the General Staff 2011–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) 2013–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Commander Land Forces (Commander Field Army from November 2015) 2014–2016 |
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| Preceded by | Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2017–2020 |
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