Mark Brewer (army)

Mark Brewer
Allegiance Australia
Service/branch Australian Army
Rank Brigadier
Commands held Royal Military College, Duntroon
Joint Task Force 629
2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment
Battles/wars War in Afghanistan
Awards Conspicuous Service Cross & Bar
Bronze Star Medal (United States)

Brigadier Mark Andrew Brewer, CSC & Bar is a senior Australian Army officer and the current Commandant of Royal Military College, Duntroon, the officer training school of the Australian Army. He has held this position since 2016.[1] He graduated from Duntroon in 1987.[2]

Brewer has been awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) twice. He initially received the CSC in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours,[3] and received a Bar for it in the 2011 Australia Day Honours.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "RMC-D leaders". Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Roll of Commandants". Australian Army. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) entry for BREWER, Mark Andrew, Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 12 June 2006, https://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1133634&showInd=true. Retrieved 3 June 2017, "For outstanding achievement as Staff Officer Grade One (Operations) Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Project and the Commanding Officer of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry)"
  4. ↑ Conspicuous Service Cross and Bar (CSC) entry for BREWER, Mark Andrew, Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 26 January 2011, https://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1144054&showInd=true. Retrieved 3 June 2017, "For outstanding achievement in a non-warlike situation as Commander Joint Task Force 629 on Operation PADANG ASSIST in the aftermath of the 30 September 2009 earthquake in western Sumatra"
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