General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton, GCB, CBE, ADC Gen. (born 1954) is a senior officer in the British Army, currently serving as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, the deputy to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the head of Britain's Armed Forces; based at the Ministry of Defence, London.
Born in Otley, near Leeds and educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Bradford. He graduated from St Peter's College, University of Oxford after doing an in-...
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General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton, GCB, CBE, ADC Gen. (born 1954) is a senior officer in the British Army, currently serving as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, the deputy to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the head of Britain's Armed Forces; based at the Ministry of Defence, London.
Born in Otley, near Leeds and educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Bradford. He graduated from St Peter's College, University of Oxford after doing an in-Service Bachelor's degree in Modern History.
After attending RMA Sandhurst, Houghton was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1974. He was appointed Military Assistant to the Chief of Staff British Army of the Rhine and subsequently became a member of the Directing Staff at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. Later he became Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion The Green Howards and was deployed to Northern Ireland.
In 1994 he was made Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff at HQ Land Command and in 1997 he attended the Higher Command...
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