Oliver Brown (British Army Officer)
Major general (United Kingdom), Major General Oliver Charles Christopher Brown is a senior British Army officer. He currently serves as General Officer Commanding 3rd (United Kingdom) Division. Military career Brown was commissioned into the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1997. He became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, in which role he was deployed to Nigeria for operations against Boko Haram, and went on to become commander 4th Light Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East in May 2019, in which role he was deployed to Kabul as Commander British Forces Afghanistan. He then became Assistant Chief of Staff Operations within Headquarters Field Army in July 2021 and General Officer Commanding 3rd (United Kingdom) Division in July 2024. References

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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ...
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