Major-General Simon James Pack is a retired

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officer.

Military career

Educated at Fernden Preparatory School in

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and Hurstpierpoint College, Pack was commissioned into the

in 1962. As a junior officer he was deployed to Sarawak during the

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. After serving in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, he became Commanding Officer of

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in 1987, Director Commitments (Overseas) in 1990 during the Gulf War and Commander British Forces Gibraltar in 1994. Since his retirement from the Royal Marines in 1997, Pack has been International Teams Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board and Partnership Secretary of Gill Jennings & Every, a law firm.

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