Major General Bruce Brealey CB (born 8 February 1959) is a

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

officer who served as Deputy Commanding General of the

Multi-National Corps – Iraq Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I) was a formerly multinational, later U.S. only, army corps created on 15 May 2004, fighting the Iraq War. Its superior body, the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) had replaced Combined Joint Task Force 7 on ...

from 2007 to 2008.

Military career

Educated at

St Olave's Grammar School St. Olave's Grammar School (formally St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Church of England Grammar School) ( or ) is a grammar school, selective secondary school for boys in Orpington, Greater London, England. Founded by royal charter in 1571, the sch ...

Orpington Orpington is a town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 13.4 miles (21.6 km) south east of Charing Cross. On the south-eastern edge of the Greater London Built-up Area, it is south of St Mary Cray, sou ...

, Brealey was commissioned into the

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in 1984. He became Commander, Royal Artillery in December 2002, Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans at the

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in January 2005 and Deputy Commanding General of the

in October 2007.Senior Army Appointments
He went on to be General Officer Commanding, Theatre Troops in November 2008 and Director-General, Capability in November 2011. He was made a companion of the Order of the Bath in 2012.

References

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