John Simpson (British Army officer)

Brigadier John James Hope Simpson, CBE (10 October 1927 – 7 March 2007) was a British Army officer who served as Director SAS from 1972 to 1975.

John Simpson
Born(1927-10-10)10 October 1927
Died7 March 2007(2007-03-07) (aged 79)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1945–1979
RankBrigadier
Commands heldSpecial Air Service
Royal Brunei Armed Forces
Battles/warsMalayan Emergency
Cyprus Emergency
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Military career

Educated at Queen's Royal College in Trinidad, Simpson enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in May 1945 and was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1946.[1] He served in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency in the early 1950s, in Cyprus during terrorist campaign EOKA in the late 1950s and then commanded a small amphibious team in Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the early 1960s.[1] He was appointed an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1965, Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces in 1969 and Director SAS in 1972.[2] His last appointment was in 1975 as director of the team at the Defence Policy Staff who had responsibility for NATO and Europe before he retired in 1979.[1]

gollark: I just had an idea for using the spare space!
gollark: It does not wrap around. You are invoking undefined behaviot.
gollark: I'm being indecisive about whether I should just keep the existing instruction format and just leave some bits unused in `STOR/LOAD`/hopefully find something to do with them, or switch out `ADDI` and use the spare space to make instructions excessively conditional.
gollark: So reassigning yet another register to hold a bunch of flags or something, splitting ADDI back into multiple instructions, and using the extra space for conditionals could work.
gollark: Or, I suppose more accurately, only not unused on `ADDI`, so I guess I could just change that?

References
  1. Obituary: Brigadier John Simpson The Times, 29 March 2007
  2. "Army Commands" (PDF). 26 July 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
Military offices
Preceded by
Fergie Semple		 Director SAS
1972–1975		 Succeeded by
John Watts
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