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Timothy David Hyams, is a senior

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officer.

Military career

Hyams was commissioned into the

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in 1986. His regiment was amalgamated with the

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to form the

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in 1992. After deployments in

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and

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, he became commanding officer of the Royal Dragoon Guards in 2005, in which capacity he was deployed to Iraq in 2007. Hyams became Director of Personal Services in July 2011 and, after being sent to Afghanistan on a mission to consider the insider threat across the

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command, he became Director of Personnel Strategy in January 2013 and Commander, Collective Training Group, Land Warfare Centre in February 2014. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Army Recruiting and Training Division in October 2016, Director Land Warfare in April 2018 and became Military Secretary and General Officer, Scotland, in October 2019. He was Colonel Commandant of the

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until he relinquished this position in December 2022. Hyams was appointed

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(CB) in the

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References

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