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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Rank
  
Lieutenant-general

Service/branch
  
British Army

Name
  
Barney White-Spunner

Years of service
  
1979–2011


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Commands held
  
Household CavalryKabul Multinational Brigade3rd Mechanised DivisionMultinational Division (South East)Field Army

Battles/wars
  
BosniaMacedoniaIraq War

Awards
  
Knight Commander of the Order of the BathCommander of the Order of the British EmpireOfficer of the Legion of Merit (United States)

Other work
  
Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation

Education
  
University of St Andrews, Eton College

Battles and wars
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia (FYROM), Iraq War

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Lieutenant General Sir Barnabas William Benjamin "Barney" White-Spunner, (born 1957) is a former British Army officer who is currently Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation.

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Military career

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Educated at Eton College and the University of St Andrews, Barney White-Spunner was commissioned into the Blues and Royals in 1979. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry in 1996 and in that capacity was deployed to Bosnia. In 1998, he was promoted to colonel and became Deputy Director of Defence Policy at NATO and in 2001 he took charge of Operation Essential Harvest, which was aimed at disarming Albanian insurgents in Macedonia.

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He became Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade in December 2000 and was given command of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in 2002 before becoming Chief of Joint Force Operations for the national contingent in the Middle East in 2003.

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By 2005 he was Chief of Staff at Land Command and in 2007 he was appointed General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division. In February 2008 he deployed with elements of 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division to Iraq where those elements formed HQ Multinational Division (South East). He went on to be Commander of the Field Army in 2009.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2011 Birthday Honours.

On 7 January 2010, White-Spunner gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry regarding the Battle of Basra.

He retired from the British Army in December 2011 and was appointed Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation in January 2012.

Literary career

White-Spunner started his literary career writing for The Field in 1992. He became editor of Baily's Hunting Directory in 1997. Publications (chronological order):

  • Baily's hunting companion, Cambridge,England: Baily's, 1994, OCLC 49733085  coauthored with British Field Sports Society.
  • "The thin blue line: Britain's military contribution to the United Nations", Brassey's defence yearbook, 105, 1995, pp. 32–40, OCLC 79031832 
  • Our countryside, Cambridge,England: Baily's, 1996, OCLC 38474081  co-authored with Simon Everett
  • Great days, Cambridge,England: Baily's, 1997, OCLC 51743648  — Contains extracts from past editions of Baily's hunting directory.
  • Horse guards, London: Macmillan, 2006, OCLC 61302547 
  • "How academia and the military can work together", Cultural heritage, ethics and the military, Woodbridge, Suffolk & Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2011, OCLC 663952868  also OCLC 817105632
  • "Great expectations: broadening the military role to include nation building", British generals in Blair's wars, Farnham, Surrey, England: Burlington, VT, 2013, OCLC 747232667 
  • Of Living Valour : the Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo, London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2015, OCLC 904549365 

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