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Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, GCVO, OBE, DL (born 17 November 1938) is a retired senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2001.
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Born into a Scottish landed family, Guthrie was the elder son of Ronald Guthrie and Nina Guthrie (née Llewelyn). and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Guthrie was commissioned into the Welsh Guards on 25 July 1959. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 June 1961 and Captain on 25 July 1965. In 1966 he became a troop ...
Guthrie, after retiring as Chief of the Defence Staff, was one of the several retired Chiefs of Defence Staff who spoke out in the House of Lords about the risk to servicemen facing liability for their actions before the International Criminal Court, particularly in respect to the invasion of Iraq. He was created a Life Peer, as Baron Guthrie of Cr...
Guthrie descends from an ancient Scottish landowning family: his kinsman is David Guthrie, 7th of Craigie. He married, on 11 Sep 1971, Catherine, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Claude Worrall, MVO, OBE, Coldstream Guards; they have two sons.
28 de dez. de 2021 · Charles Guthrie was commissioned into the British Army in 1959 at a time when Britain's influence was shrinking throughout the world, and Peace, War and Whitehall describes his operational experience with both the Welsh Guards and 22 SAS in Aden, Malaya, East Africa, Cyprus and Northern Ireland.
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General Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, LVO, OBE, DL, KCSG, KM, KCJCO ( born 17 November 1938) was Chief of the Defence Staff between 1997 and 2001 and Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1994 and 1997.
He also served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1994 and 1997. Raised to the peerage as Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, of Craigiebank in the City of Dundee in 2001, Guthrie retired from the House of Lords in December 2020.
16 de jul. de 2013 · Former Chief of the Defence Staff, Lord Charles Guthrie, Baron of Craigiebank has taken up the ceremonial role. . Lord Guthrie, a crossbench life peer, started his military career in...
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank's full title is The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE DL. His name is Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, and he has retired from the House of Lords.
