Chris Nickols

Air Marshal Christopher Mark Nickols, CB, CBE, FRAeS, DL (born 23 July 1956) is a retired senior officer in the Royal Air Force, whose final appointment was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Prior to that he served as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations).

Chris Nickols
Air Marshal Nickols inspects troops in 2010
Born (1956-07-23) 23 July 1956
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Air Force
Years of service1974–2012
RankAir Marshal
Commands heldAir Warfare Centre
RAF Lossiemouth
No. 2 Squadron
Battles/warsKosovo War
Iraq War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

RAF career

Educated at St Edmund's School in Canterbury and having read Engineering at Downing College, Cambridge, Nickols joined the Royal Air Force in 1974.[1][2] He served as a pilot, flying Jaguars in Germany for 9 years before becoming Officer Commanding No. 2 Squadron in 1993. He was appointed Director of the UK Combined Air Operations Centre in 1997, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood during the Kosovo War and then Station Commander at RAF Lossiemouth in 2000.[1] He was also Air Commodore Offensive Operations at Headquarters No. 1 Group,[1] and was Director of the Combined Air Operations Centre for four months in 2003 during the Iraq War.[1] He was made Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) in 2005 and Chief of Defence Intelligence in 2009.[1]

Nickols is Chairman of the RAF Polo Association,[3] and a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.[4]

References
  1. Royal United Services Institute
  2. "No. 46432". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 November 1974. p. 12878.
  3. RAF Polo Association
  4. "Deputy Lieutenants by alphabetical listing". Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
Military offices
Preceded by
Nick Houghton		 Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations)
2005–2008		 Succeeded by
Andrew Pulford
Preceded by
Stuart Peach		 Chief of Defence Intelligence
2009–2012		 Succeeded by
Alan Richards
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