Nigel Bagnall

Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1985 and 1989.

He was born in India in 1927 and joined the British Army in 1945. He served in Palestine, Malaya, Singapore, Cyprus and Germany where he was General Officer Commanding the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). The Old Wellingtonian is also a military historian and fellow of Balliol College Oxford

He wrote a history of the Punic wars published by Pimlico in 1990

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