Description
Physical description
Shirt.
Single-breasted lightweight disruptive pattern material (DPM) combat shirt. Features two bellows breast pockets, secured by buttons. Shirt fastens by fly front zipper and concealed plastic buttons. Left upper sleeve has pen pocket that is secured by a flap & single plastic button. Cuffs are fastened by tag & button arrangement.
Attached rank slides fitted to the shoulder straps are those of Air Marshal rank, made of temperate issue blue. To the left chest is a pilot's brevet; left upper arm a union flag; and right upper arm a cloth Combined Operations patch, embroidered in red on midnight blue backing.
Attached to the chest, second button down, is a shoulder strap of desert DPM, fitted with three blackened metal US rank stars showing the equivelant American rank of Lieutenant-General.
Label
Uniform worn by Air Marshal Brian Burridge, UK Contingent Commander in operations against Iraq, 2003.
Air Marshal Burridge joined the Royal Air Force as a University Cadet in 1967. A pilot, his operational background is in the Maritime Patrol role, serving on Nos 206 & 120 Squadrons. He commanded the Nimrod OCU from 1986-88 & RAF Kinloss from 1990-92. He has also completed a number of tours as a flying instructor which included command of Cambridge University Air Squadron.
His first staff tour was as Personal Staff Officer to the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Strike Command. From 1992-97, he served in MOD, initially as Deputy Director of Force Doctrine (RAF), later becoming the Director of Force Development in the Central Staff before spending almost 3 years as the Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff.
Promoted to Air Vice-Marshal in 1998, he was appointed Air Officer Commanding No 11/18 Group with operational command of the RAF's air defence, maritime, and search and rescue forces. In this appiontment, he was double-hatted in the NATO post of COMMAIREASTLENT. He became Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College in January 2000, subsequently moving the College into a Public Private Partnership at Shrivenham. He was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief Strike Command in February 2002, and also assumed the role of Commander of NATO's Combined Operations Centre 9, based at RAF High Wycombe. In October 2002, he was detached from his duties at Strike Command to become the UK's National Contingent Commander for operations against Iraq. Operating alongside US Central Command in Qatar, he commanded the 43,000-strong UK joint Force during deployment, the combat phase & the early weeks of the aftermath, returning to the UK in May 2003.
He was subsequently appionted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the Iraq Operational Honours List.
History note
Uniform worn by Air Marshal Brian Burridge, UK Contingent Commander in operations against Iraq, 2003.
Air Marshal Burridge joined the Royal Air Force as a University Cadet in 1967. A pilot, his operational background is in the Maritime Patrol role, serving on Nos 206 & 120 Squadrons. He commanded the Nimrod OCU from 1986-88 & RAF Kinloss from 1990-92. He has also completed a number of tours as a flying instructor which included command of Cambridge University Air Squadron.
His first staff tour was as Personal Staff Officer to the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Strike Command. From 1992-97, he served in MOD, initially as Deputy Director of Force Doctrine (RAF), later becoming the Director of Force Development in the Central Staff before spending almost 3 years as the Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff.
Promoted to Air Vice-Marshal in 1998, he was appointed Air Officer Commanding No 11/18 Group with operational command of the RAF's air defence, maritime, and search and rescue forces. In this appiontment, he was double-hatted in the NATO post of COMMAIREASTLENT. He became Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College in January 2000, subsequently moving the College into a Public Private Partnership at Shrivenham. He was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief Strike Command in February 2002, and also assumed the role of Commander of NATO's Combined Operations Centre 9, based at RAF High Wycombe. In October 2002, he was detached from his duties at Strike Command to become the UK's National Contingent Commander for operations against Iraq. Operating alongside US Central Command in Qatar, he commanded the 43,000-strong UK joint Force during deployment, the combat phase & the early weeks of the aftermath, returning to the UK in May 2003.
He was subsequently appionted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the Iraq Operational Honours List.
Printed in black ink onto white label that is attached to inside back of shirt.
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