Robin Evelegh
Colonel Robin Evelegh (23 November 1932 – 15 May 2010) was a British Army officer who was the author of Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society-The Lessons of Northern Ireland (1978) which was based on his experiences as an infantry battalion commander in Belfast and which influenced later peacekeeping operations. John Robin Garnet Nial Evelegh was born in Madras, India. He was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a degree in modern history. Evelegh was commissioned into the 1st Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd in 1952. He served with the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in Penang and during the insurgency in Brunei in 1962. He later served in Borneo during the confrontation with Indonesia. He served in Cyprus and Berlin. He was ADC to the Commander I Corps (United Kingdom), 1st (British) Corps with British Army of the Rhine, BAOR. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1970 and became military assistant ...
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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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