Education
University of Street Andrews. Eton College.
chairman executive General army officer commander
University of Street Andrews. Eton College.
Educated at Eton College and the University of Street 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 North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in 2001 he took charge of an operation to disarm Albanian insurgents in Macedonia.
He was given command of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in 2002 and then became Chief of Joint Force Operations for the national contingent in the Middle East in 2003.
In February 2008 he deployed with elements of 3rd (United Kingdom) Mechanised Division to Iraq where those elements formed Headquarters 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 (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2002 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) 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.
White-Spunner started his literary career writing for The Field in 1992. He became editor of Baily"s Hunting Directory in 1997. He is also the author of a history of the Horse Guards.
