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59666 MOD Supp 1 30-05-17.Indd MINSTRY OF DEFENCE Officer Cadet William George STEVENS-SMITH Welsh Guards Officer Cadet Christian Michael Richard MOORE Princess of 30256140 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Wales’s Royal Regiment 30224309 from The Royal Military Academy Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Thomas Aubrey Maxwell STRACHAN Scots Guards Officer Cadet David William RAWDON Royal Anglian Regiment 30255184 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second 25223322 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Luca Matteo Francesco VINCENZINI Welsh Guards KING’S DIVISION 30191577 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 REGULAR ARMY Officer Cadet Sebastian Alexander WARD Welsh Guards 30245847 Short Service Commissions from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Malachi John JONES Yorkshire Regiment 30251165 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant SCOTTISH DIVISION 14 April 2017 REGULAR ARMY Officer Cadet John-Paul O’CONNOR-MARSH Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 30207700 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to Short Service Commissions be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Bradley John ANDERSON The Royal Regiment of Officer Cadet Richard Simon POOLEY Yorkshire Regiment 20186022 Scotland 30160906 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Thomas Bryce HANCOCK The Royal Regiment of Officer Cadet Christopher Benjamin SHUTTLEWOOD Yorkshire Scotland 30203254 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Regiment 30183740 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Ashley Morgan JONES The Royal Regiment of Scotland Officer Cadet Joseph Michael TANKARD Yorkshire Regiment 30250394 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second 30183699 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Matthew Robert ORR The Royal Regiment of Scotland Officer Cadet Joel TURNER Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 30184573 30159007 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant Lieutenant 14 April 2017 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet John ROBB The Royal Regiment of Scotland 30159077 PRINCE OF WALES’S DIVISION from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 REGULAR ARMY Officer Cadet Thomas Manser THORPE The Royal Regiment of Short Service Commissions Scotland 30077267 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Gareth Daniel DAVIES Royal Welsh 30246044 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant QUEEN’S DIVISION 14 April 2017 REGULAR ARMY Officer Cadet Jacob Elliot KITE Royal Welsh 30185351 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Short Service Commissions Officer Cadet Sam Anthony MANN Mercian Regiment 30038075 from Officer Cadet Joshua Charles BEALE Royal Anglian Regiment The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 30163961 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second 14 April 2017 Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Niall Francis O’MALLEY Mercian Regiment 30160182 Officer Cadet Daniel Thomas BELL Princess of Wales’s Royal from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant Regiment 30075241 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to 14 April 2017 be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Oliver Ralph SCOTT Mercian Regiment 30252628 from Officer Cadet Thomas Patrick CHARLTON Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 30184714 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second 14 April 2017 Lieutenant 14 April 2017 LIGHT DIVISION Officer Cadet Thomas William CLAESSENS Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 30255351 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to REGULAR ARMY be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Short Service Commissions Officer Cadet William Peter George COWPER Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 30159486 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Officer Cadet George BAYLESS The Rifles 30226061 from The Royal Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 Officer Cadet Harry DEED Royal Anglian Regiment 30256211 from Officer Cadet Andrew Martin BURNETT The Rifles 30184250 from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be Second Lieutenant 14 April 2017 14 April 2017 10600 | 30 MAY 2017 | LONDON GAZETTE | SUPPLEMENT NO. 1.
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