Trustees of the
KOHIMA Educational Trust

Major General (Retd) RDS Gordon CMG CBE MA

Major General Robert Gordon was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and Cambridge University.  He was commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1970, thereafter serving in the Sudan, Cyprus (with the UN), Germany, Northern Ireland and on exchange with Lord Strathcona’s Horse in Canada.

From 1990-1992 he commanded the 17th/21st Lancers in Germany, an armoured regiment deployed during that time to Cyprus, Canada, Belize and the Gulf.

In 1992 he was Secretary to the Chiefs of Staff Committee in the UK MOD London. In 1994 he took command of the 19th Mechanised Brigade and went to Bosnia in 1994, commanding UN Sector South West Bosnia (UNPROFOR) and the British Forces in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. He subsequently deployed with elements of his brigade to Malaysia and the Oman.

He was Director of Army Public Relations in the UK MOD from 1997 to April 1999. He commanded the 2nd (UK) Division in York as Major General in 1999 and in 2000 took command of the British Army in the North of England and Scotland, as well as being Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

He was appointed Force Commander of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) in October 2002 with HQs in Asmara and Addis Ababa and served on contract with the UN until late 2004.

Robert Gordon retired from the British Army in 2005, forming his own consulting company. When not overseas he lives in Wiltshire, England with his long-suffering wife Gina.  He has two sons, aged 26 and 22.