Major General Timothy John Hodgetts, is a senior British Army officer and

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, who has served as Surgeon General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces since 2021.

Military career

Educated at the

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, Hodgetts was commissioned into the

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in 1983. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the

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, served as the medical director at the multinational hospital in Afghanistan in 2009, and became medical director for the

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in 2011. He was appointed medical director for the Defence Medical Services in 2014, Head of the Army Medical Services in 2018. and Surgeon General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces in May 2021. Hodgetts was appointed

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(CB) in the

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. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of the

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