Brigadier, UK Felix G. Gedney OBE
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Felix Gedney was born and raised on a farm in the southeast of England. He was educated at school in Kent and was commissioned into the Royal Hussars in 1986 after a short period of work in South Africa. He then attended Durham University as an Army Cadet obtaining a degree in Engineering. He holds a Masters Degree in Defence Technology.
Within the Field Army he has commanded an infantry platoon and an Armoured Troop, an Infantry Company and an Armoured Squadron, and an Armoured Battlegroup. He has also worked within a Regimental headquarters and on the staff within the Ministry of Defence, dealing at various times with operations in Northern Ireland, The Balkans and Sierra Leone. He enjoys operational soldiering and has served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2000 he did a short posting to the United Nations in New York dealing with Sierra Leone.
In 2008, he commanded the UK Military Transition Team Group in southern Iraq and handed over command of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in December 2008 on their return from operations. His last post was as Assistant Director Future Plans within the UK�s Army Headquarters dealing with the UK Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Felix Gedney's interests include equitation, ornithology, cabinet making, motorcycling and rugby; and he is keen on, but equally bad at, a large number of other sports. He enjoys new and exciting challenges, which in the past have included marathon running, swimming the channel, elephant polo, and motorcycling across the Hindu Cush.
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