Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

Jonathan David "Jacko" Page, (born 25 February 1959) is a retired senior

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officer.

Early life

Page was born in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

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, on 25 February 1959.

Military career

Page commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1981.UK Ministry of Defence biography, Operation Telic
In 1989, he commanded an armoured squadron of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and deployed to the Middle East for Operation Granby, the British military contribution to the

Gulf War , combatant2 = , commander1 = , commander2 = , strength1 = Over 950,000 soldiers3,113 tanks1,800 aircraft2,200 artillery systems , page = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-PEMD-96- ...

. As well as staff posts in the Ministry of Defence, Page has served as chief of staff of 24 Airmobile Brigade and with United Nations Protection Force in

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. He assumed command of

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in December 2002, which deployed as part of Operation Telic, the British contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On 1 May 2007, Page replaced Dutch Major General Ton van Loon as Regional Command South in

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for a six-month period. This

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ISAF command was responsible for southern Afghanistan, where some of the most intensive combat operations against the Taliban took place. Then in 2008 he was appointed General Officer Commanding 6th Division (a new divisional headquarters in

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), and in 2009 he was appointed Director Special Forces. Page was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2009 New Year Honours, and went on to be Commander Force Development and Training in February 2012 with the rank of

lieutenant general Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

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