Major General James Timothy Edward Illingworth, is a former senior

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officer. He served as Commander of

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from 2017 to 2019.

Military career

Educated at

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, and the

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, Illingworth was commissioned into the Army Air Corps in 1989. He became commanding officer of No. 657 Squadron AAC in August 2001 and went on to be a staff officer in the Directorate of Joint Commitments at the

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in 2003, Deputy Commander,

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in December 2010 and senior military

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at the

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in August 2013. llingworth became Deputy Commander,

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in August 2016 and Commander,

in February 2017. He was replaced by Major General Robert Thomson on 25 September 2019. Illingworth was appointed Director Land Warfare Centre in October 2019. He retired in April 2022. Illingworth was appointed an Officer of the

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in the

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References

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