Richard Rhys Jones
| Richard Rhys Jones | |
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Major General Rhys Jones in 2010
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| Born |
2 May 1960 Timaru, New Zealand |
| Allegiance | New Zealand |
| Service/branch | New Zealand Army |
| Years of service | 1978–2014 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
Chief of the Defence Force Chief of Army Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles 3 Land Force Group |
| Awards | Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
Lieutenant General Richard Rhys Jones, CNZM (born 2 May 1960) is a retired senior New Zealand Army officer, who was the Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force from 2011 to 2014. He was succeeded by Lieutenant General Tim Keating.
Jones was born in Timaru and is the son of Methodist minister Alan Jones. Jones is the youngest in a family of nine, six in his immediate family plus three half-brothers including writer Owen Marshall Jones. He is a former pupil of Wanganui Boys' College.
Jones enlisted in the New Zealand Army in December 1978, and attended the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra from 1979 to 1982, graduating as a Bachelor of Arts, having majored in politics. In December 1982, he entered the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps as a lieutenant. He then spent nine years at Waiouru Army Camp followed by ten years intermittently in Australia. He was posted to the Middle East as an observer with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation, and with the Observer Group Lebanon as an operations officer.
Jones is a 1992 graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and was inducted into the USACGSC International Hall of Fame in October 2010. He attended the higher defence college at the Australian Defence College, completed a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies at La Trobe University, and has a Diploma in Qualitative Futures.
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