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Sir Martin Spencer White, KCVO, CB,

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(born 25 March 1944) is a senior

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officer who served as

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from 2006 to 2019; he had previously been Vice-Lieutenant since 1999."White, Maj.-Gen. Martin Spencer"
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'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 24 November 2018. He stepped down as Lord Lieutenant in March 2019. He was commissioned into the

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in 1964 and, among other units, he commanded the Logistic Support Group between 1987 and 1989 and the Force Maintenance Area during the

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(1990–91); he was Director of Support for the

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from 1993 to 1995 (he was also promoted to

in 1993), and Director-General of Logistic Support for the British Army from 1995 to 1998. He also served as Colonel Commandant of the

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from 1998 to 2009, and has worked in advisory roles for various private sector companies since 1999. In 1991, he was appointed a Commander of the

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, and seven years later a Companion of the

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; in the

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he was also appointed a Knight Commander of the

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."Martin White"
''The London Gazette'', issue 62310, notice no. 3041352 (8 June 2018).

References

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