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Sir Mark William Poffley, (born 1960) is a former senior

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officer.

Military career

Poffley was commissioned into the

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in 1985. After seeing action in the

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and then in the

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, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for 24 Airmobile Brigade and then as Staff Officer responsible for Plans and Doctrine in the Attack Helicopter Team. He became commanding officer of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment in 2001, and was deployed to

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in August of that year and

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in 2002. Poffley went on to be Colonel Army Plans in 2003 and commander

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in 2005, seeing active service in

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in that capacity. He went on to be Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff in December 2006, Chief of Staff Land Forces in March 2009 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Resources and Plans) in November 2011: he was given the additional title of Master General of Logistics in June 2012. He went on to be Commander Force Development and Capability in February 2014 as well as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff in Spring 2015. After that he was appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Capability) at the

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in January 2016. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed

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(KCB).

References

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