Nigel Maddox
Maddox (right)
BornMiddlesex
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Air Force
Years of service1973–2009
RankAir Vice Marshal
Commands heldJoint Services Command and Staff College (2005–07)
No. 2 Group (2002–05)
RAF Brüggen (1996–98)
No. 12 Squadron (1991–93)
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Air Vice Marshal Nigel David Alan Maddox, CBE is a retired senior officer of the Royal Air Force. He is the Senior Military Adviser to the UK Department for International Trade Defence & Security Exports.[1]

Military career

Maddox was born in Middlesex and later attended Clark’s Grammar School in Southend on Sea. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1973.[2] He rose steadily through the ranks in a variety of roles and in 1988 studied at the Royal Naval Staff College at Greenwich, after which he became personal staff officer to the Air Officer Commanding No. 18 Group at Northwood.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Maddox held various staff jobs and undertook operational tours in Germany and the Falkland Islands. In 1998 he gained a posting to Northwood as Air Officer Maritime within Headquarters No. 3 Group and subsequently, as an air vice marshal, he served as Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group from August 2002 to July 2005.[3] He then became Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, a post he held until September 2007.[4]

Maddox served as Chief of Staff (Operations) at RAF Air Command[5] until he retired from RAF service in July 2009 and was succeeded by Air Vice Marshal Richard Garwood.[6]

Reference list

  1. ^ "UK DSO Directory 2016" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. ^ "No. 45976". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 May 1973. p. 6078.
  3. ^ Irish Guards returned home BBC News, 15 April 2003
  4. ^ Change of Command — Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
  5. ^ UK Chapter of the AOC – Newsletter March 2008
  6. ^ Royal Air Force Air Rank Appointments List 07/08 Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 16 October 2008
Military offices Preceded bySir Glenn Torpy Station Commander RAF Brüggen 1996–1998 Succeeded byIain McNicoll Preceded bySir Glenn Torpy Senior Royal Air Force Officer Germany 1996–1998 Succeeded byIain McNicoll Preceded byKeith Filbey Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group 2002–2005 Succeeded byIain McNicoll Preceded byNick Parker Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College 2005–2007 Succeeded byNeil Morisetti Preceded byChris Harper Chief of Staff (Operations) RAF Air Command 2007–2009 Succeeded byRichard Garwood
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