Tyrone Urch

Tyrone Urch
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 1984 –
Rank Major-General
Commands held 1st Mechanised Brigade
Force Troops Command
Battles/wars Iraq War
Awards Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Major-General Tyrone Richard Urch CBE (born 12 June 1965) is a British Army officer who serves as General Officer Commanding Force Troops Command.

Military career

Educated at Warminster School, Welbeck College, Cranfield University (BEng) and King's College London (MA),[1] Urch was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 4 June 1984.[2] In 2001, as officer commanding 20 Field Squadron, he led the construction of two schools, a new hangar at Price Barracks and a jungle research station in Belize.[3] He became Commanding Officer of 22 Engineer Regiment in 2004[4] and was deployed to Iraq later that year.[5] He went on to be Commander of 1st Mechanised Brigade December 2008, Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations at the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in December 2010[6] and Chief of Staff for Land Forces in October 2012.[7] After that he became General Officer Commanding Force Troops Command in February 2015.[8]

Urch was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours.[9]

References

  1. ↑ ‘URCH, Maj. Gen. Tyrone Richard’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 49754. p. 7751. 4 June 1984. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Rumble in the jungle". New Civil Engineer. 24 May 2001. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "First Soldiers move in" (PDF). Drumbeat. February 2005. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Operational honours list". Token Publishing. 18 March 2005. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Senior Tri-Service and Ministry of Defence Posts" (PDF). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "Too Many Generals...Not Enough For Them To Do?". Combat and Survival. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 5. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
Military offices
Preceded by
Tim Radford		 General Officer Commanding, Force Troops Command
2015– 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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