40 Commando - Commanding Officers

Commanding Officers

  • 1942–1942 Lt Col J Picton Phillips RM (KIA Dieppe)
  • 1942–1944 Lt Col J C “Pops” Manners RM (KIA Brač, Yugoslavia)
  • 1944-1945 Lt Col R W Sankey DSO DSC RM
  • 1945 Maj I De'Ath DSO MBE RM
  • 1945 Maj W D Read RM
  • 1945 Lt Col C L Price RM
  • 1948–1948 Lt Col R D Houghton OBE MC RM
  • 1948–1958 Not known
  • 1958–1959 Lt Col Peter Hellings DSO MC RM
  • 1959–1961 Lt Col Ian Harrison RM
  • 1961-1963 Lt Col David Hunter MC RM
  • 1964–1964 Lt Col John Taplin RM
  • 1966-1967 Lt Col E D Pounds RM
  • 1967–1969 Lt Col Robert Loudoun RM
  • 1969–1970 Lt Col David Alexander RM
  • 1970-1972 Lt Col D L Bailey OBE RM
  • 1972–1974 Lt Col John Mottram RM
  • 1975–1978 Lt Col Julian Thompson RM
  • 1978–1979 Lt Col Martin Garrod RM
  • 1979–1981 Lt Col Robin Ross RM
  • 1981–1983 Lt Col Malcolm Hunt RM
  • 1983–1985 Lt Col Tim Donkin RM
  • 1985-1987 Lt Col Alan Hooper RM
  • 1987–1989 Lt Col John Chester RM
  • 1989–1991 Lt Col A D Wray RM
  • 1991–1992 Lt Col Graham Dunlop RM
  • 1992–1994 Lt Col Anthony Milton RM
  • 1994–1996 Lt Col Ian Gardiner RM
  • 1996–1998 Lt Col Jim Dutton RM
  • 1998–2000 Lt Col John Rose OBE RM
  • 2000–2002 Lt Col David Capewell RM
  • 2002–2004 Lt Col Gordon Messenger DSO OBE RM
  • 2004–2006 Lt Col D C M King RM
  • 2006–2008 Lt Col S M Birrell DSO RM
  • 2008–2010 Lt Col Paul James RM
  • 2011-Present Lt Col Matt Jackson RM

Coordinates: 51°2.338′N 3°9.248′W / 51.038967°N 3.154133°W / 51.038967; -3.154133 (Norton Manor Camp)

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