- Andrew Ridgway
Lieutenant General Andrew Peter Ridgway, CB, CBE, becameLieutenant Governor of Jersey from14 June 2006 after a long military career. He was born in 1950, educated at Hele's School, Exeter, theRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst , andSt John's College, Cambridge .In 1970 he was commissioned into the
3rd Royal Tank Regiment , serving in Germany and Ireland as a Troop Leader. In 1975 he qualified as a helicopter pilot, and was given command of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment Air Squadron, operating inCentral America andNorthern Ireland . In 1982 he attended the Army Staff College at Camberley, before taking command of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment and the 7th Armoured Brigade (the 'Desert Rats'). In 1994 he was appointed UN Commander in CentralBosnia and Herzegovina , and became Chief of Staff for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps for NATO's entry into theKosovo War in 1999. Most recently, for 2003 to 2006, he was Chief of Defence Intelligence, although he was not directly involved in producing the controversial intelligence reports that led to2003 invasion of Iraq andOperation Telic . He is also Colonel of theRoyal Tank Regiment (appointed in 1999) and Honorary Colonel of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps.Since 2006 Ridgway has been
Lieutenant-Governor ofJersey , in theChannel Islands , where he acts as the Queen's representative. Though largely a symbolic and ceremonial appointment, the post of Lieutenant-Governor is the essential link betweenJersey andthe Crown , as theChannel Islands are not part of theUnited Kingdom .Other jobs in his career have included running the Army budget as Colonel Army Programmes and posts as First Director of Operational Capability, First Director of Training and Education and Chief of Joint Force Operations.
He was appointed CBE in 1995 and CB in 2001, as well as receiving the QCVS and the US Defence Intelligence Agency Award in 2005. Ridgway was the first
Chief of Defence Intelligence not to be knighted during his tenure of the post.ource
* Lewis, Anthony (May 27, 2006). "On Her Majesty's Service", "Jersey Evening Post", pp. 8-10.
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