Tony Jeapes

Antony (Tony) Showan Jeapes CB OBE MC ( born March 6, 1935 in New Malden, Surrey, now a district of London, England) is an officer in the British Army, which was retired in 1990 as a major general.

Life

Jeapes went to high school at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As a lieutenant, he was in 1958 for the first time 22 Special Air Service Regiment, which was stationed in Malaysia, abkommandiert. With this he took in 1959 in actions against insurgents in the Jebel Akhdar in northern Oman part. He was honored for his local success with the Military Cross.

After various education and training, including in Fort Bragg ( North Carolina) when American special forces went Jeapes as Squadron Commander in 1968 again to Malaya. From there he was reassigned in 1970 to the 22nd SAS Regiment to Oman to take part in the fighting against communist insurgents in Dhofar. After the successful completion of the six- year-long Dhofar War, he was awarded the OBE.

More military career

Jeapes could bring its experience from its use in Oman in various courses at home and abroad and was in the 1980s, the commander of all British land forces in Northern Ireland, which supported the local police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the fight against terrorists on both sides. His activity in Northern Ireland was named Companion to the Order of the Bath CB. Last time was Jeapes as a major general commander of the British Mobile Force, the British contribution to the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (ACE).

Jeapes is married. The couple has a son and a daughter.

Publications

• SAS: Operation Oman. William Kimber, London 1980, ISBN 0-7183-0018-1. expanded edition: SAS secret was: Operation Storm in the Middle East. Greenhill Books, 2005, ISBN 1-85367-567-9.