40 Commando - Commanding Officers

Commanding Officers

• 1942–1942 Lt Col J Picton Phillips RM (KIA Dieppe)
• 1942–1944 Lt Col J C “Pops” Manners RM (KIA Brač, Yugoslavia)
• 1944-1945 Lt Col R W Sankey DSO DSC RM
• 1945 Maj I De'Ath DSO MBE RM
• 1945 Maj W D Read RM
• 1945 Lt Col C L Price RM
• 1948–1948 Lt Col R D Houghton OBE MC RM
• 1948–1958 Not known
• 1958–1959 Lt Col Peter Hellings DSO MC RM
• 1959–1961 Lt Col Ian Harrison RM
• 1961-1963 Lt Col David Hunter MC RM
• 1964–1964 Lt Col John Taplin RM
• 1966-1967 Lt Col E D Pounds RM
• 1967–1969 Lt Col Robert Loudoun RM
• 1969–1970 Lt Col David Alexander RM
• 1970-1972 Lt Col D L Bailey OBE RM
• 1972–1974 Lt Col John Mottram RM
• 1975–1978 Lt Col Julian Thompson RM
• 1978–1979 Lt Col Martin Garrod RM
• 1979–1981 Lt Col Robin Ross RM
• 1981–1983 Lt Col Malcolm Hunt RM
• 1983–1985 Lt Col Tim Donkin RM
• 1985-1987 Lt Col Alan Hooper RM
• 1987–1989 Lt Col John Chester RM
• 1989–1991 Lt Col A D Wray RM
• 1991–1992 Lt Col Graham Dunlop RM
• 1992–1994 Lt Col Anthony Milton RM
• 1994–1996 Lt Col Ian Gardiner RM
• 1996–1998 Lt Col Jim Dutton RM
• 1998–2000 Lt Col John Rose OBE RM
• 2000–2002 Lt Col David Capewell RM
• 2002–2004 Lt Col Gordon Messenger DSO OBE RM
• 2004–2006 Lt Col D C M King RM
• 2006–2008 Lt Col S M Birrell DSO RM
• 2008–2010 Lt Col Paul James RM
• 2011-Present Lt Col Matt Jackson RM

Coordinates: 51°2.338′N 3°9.248′W / 51.038967°N 3.154133°W / 51.038967; -3.154133 (Norton Manor Camp)