Biography:Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

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Short description: Chemical and biological weapons expert

Colonel Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon OBE (born September 1963) is a chemical weapons expert and was a director of SecureBio Limited until its dissolution on 17 August 2017.[1] He was formerly a British Army officer for 23 years and commanding officer of the UK's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment and NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion.[2] He is a visiting lecturer in disaster management at Bournemouth University.[3] He attended Tonbridge School and has a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading (1987).[citation needed] He has commented on chemical and biological weapons for the BBC,[4] ABC[5] and The Guardian .[6]

Military service

On 4 January 1988, while being sponsored through university by the British Army as a university candidate, de Bretton-Gordon was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Royal Tank Regiment.[7] In September 1988, his commission was confirmed: he was given seniority in the rank of second lieutenant from 10 August 1985, and promoted to lieutenant backdated to 4 January 1988 with seniority from 10 August 1987.[8] He transferred from a short service commission to a regular commission on 29 January 1991,[9] and was promoted to captain on 10 August 1991.[10] In 1991, he saw active service in Iraq with the 14th/20th King's Hussars as part of the First Gulf War.[11]

After attending the Australian Command and Staff College, he was promoted to major on 30 September 1995.[12][13] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 30 June 2003.[14] In 2004, rather than receiving the command of a tank regiment as he'd expected, he was appointed commanding officer of the UK's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment.[15] In preparation for the command, he studied for a diploma in chemical biology at the Royal Military College of Science.[16] In the 2005 New Year Honours, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[17] He additionally commanded NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion between 2005 and 2007.[18] He was promoted to colonel on 30 June 2007.[19] From 2007 to 2010, he was based at HQ Land Command as assistant director intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.[13] He retired from the British Army on 12 September 2011.[20]

See also

  • Alastair Hay

References

  1. ↑ "Secure Bio Limited". https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07687281/insolvency. Retrieved 2018-04-15. 
  2. ↑ "Hamish de Bretton-Gordon". The Guardian. 2015-04-27. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hamish-de-bretton-gordon. Retrieved 2017-06-30. 
  3. ↑ "Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE". Military Speakers. 1952-06-26. http://www.militaryspeakers.co.uk/speakers/hamish-de-bretton-gordon-obe/. Retrieved 2017-06-30. 
  4. ↑ Bretton-Gordon, Hamish de (2018-02-16). "Viewpoint: Chemical weapons 'threat to West'". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43074956. 
  5. ↑ "ABC Search". https://search-beta.abc.net.au/#/?configure%5BgetRankingInfo%5D=true&configure%5BclickAnalytics%5D=true&configure%5BuserToken%5D=anonymous-481e18a2-16db-41f6-b3d7-d05f3dd73988&configure%5BhitsPerPage%5D=10&query=hamish%20de%20bretton%20gordon&page=1. 
  6. ↑ "Hamish de Bretton-Gordon". 2015-06-24. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/hamish-de-bretton-gordon. 
  7. ↑ No. 51262. 7 March 1988. p. 2793. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/51262/supplement/2793 
  8. ↑ No. 51480. 7 March 1988. p. 10778. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/51480/supplement/10778 
  9. ↑ No. 52518. 29 April 1991. p. 6709. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/52518/supplement/6709 
  10. ↑ No. 52659. 16 September 1991. p. 14123. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/52659/supplement/14123 
  11. ↑ de Bretton-Gordon, Hamish (2020). "Introduction: February 1991". Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War. London: Headline. 
  12. ↑ No. 54173. 2 October 1995. p. 13315. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/54173/supplement/13315 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE". https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hamish-de-bretton-gordon-obe-37aa9a35. 
  14. ↑ No. 56986. 1 July 2003. p. 8126. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/56986/supplement/8126 
  15. ↑ de Bretton-Gordon, Hamish (2020). "2: New Assignment". Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War. London: Headline. 
  16. ↑ de Bretton-Gordon, Hamish (2020). "3: The First Step". Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War. London: Headline. 
  17. ↑ No. 57509. 31 December 2004. p. 5. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/57509/supplement/5 
  18. ↑ Cruickshank, Paul (August 2018). "A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Former Commander of U.K. CBRN Regiment". CTC Sentinel 11 (7): 5–9. https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CTC-SENTINEL-082018-final.pdf. Retrieved 11 March 2022. 
  19. ↑ No. 58381. 3 July 2007. pp. 9548–9549. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58381/supplement/9548 
  20. ↑ No. 59986. 6 December 2011. p. 23309. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59986/supplement/23309 

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