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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Westminster School; Phillips Academy.
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John Watts
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Educated at Westminster School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Watts was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in 1951. He served with 22 Special Air Service Regiment and, as Commander of B Squadron, took part in counter-terrorism operations in Borneo in 1958 and then, as Commander of Doctorate Squadron, he took part in the regiment"s successful assault on Jebel Akhdar in Oman in January 1959. He was appointed to Commanding Officer of 22 Special Air Service Regiment in 1970, an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1972 and Director SAS in 1975.
He went on to be Commander of the Sultan of Oman’s Land Forces in 1979 and Chief of Defence Staff for the Sultan of Oman"s Armed Forces in 1984 before retiring in 1987.
In retirement he read history and lived in a village in Wiltshire.
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SAS