Jack Deverell

General Sir (John Freeguard) Jack Deverell KCB OBE (born 27 April 1945) was Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe.

Military career
Educated at King Edward's School, Bath and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Jack Deverell was commissioned into the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry in 1966. He was selected as Commanding Officer of 3rd Bn Light Infantry in 1984, serving in the UK and in Northern Ireland, before moving on to be Director of Staff at Royal Military College of Science in 1986. He became Commander of the UK Mobile Force in 1988.

In 1991 he took the post of Director of Army Recruiting, followed, in 1993, by the post of Director-General of Army Manning and Recruiting at the Ministry of Defence. In 1995 he became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

He was made Deputy Commander-in-Chief Land Command and Inspector General of the Territorial Army in 1997 and deployed as Deputy Commander for Operations of the Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 1998 after which he returned to his role as Deputy Commander-in-Chief in March 1999. His final appointment was as Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe in 2001; he retired in 2004.

In retirement he became Chairman of the National Army Museum.

Family
In 1973 he married Jane Ellen Solomon: they have one son and one daughter.