John Lorimer

Lieutenant-General John Gordon Lorimer DSO MBE (born 1962) is a senior British Army officer.

Military career
Educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Lorimer was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1981. He served in Northern Ireland. He was appointed Commander of 12th Mechanized Brigade in June 2005 and was deployed to Iraq and then Afghanistan. In the rank of major general, he was appointed as the Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Communications Officer in 2010 and then as General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division in June 2011 and on promotion to lieutenant general as Deputy Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in July 2013.