Nick Houghton
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| J N R (Nick) Houghton CBE | |
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| 1954— | |
 J N R (Nick) Houghton |
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| Place of birth | Otley, West Yorkshire |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1974 — |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | 1st Bn The Green Howards 39 Infantry Brigade |
| Battles/wars | Northern Ireland, Iraq |
| Awards | CBE |
Lieutenant General J N R (Nick) Houghton CBE is the current Chief of Joint Operations based at the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ), Northwood Headquarters, London.
General Houghton was born in 1954 in Otley, near Leeds. He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Bradford, RMA Sandhurst and St Peter's College, Oxford, where he did an in-Service degree in Modern History.
Commissioned into the Green Howards in 1974 he had a variety of Regimental and Staff appointments before attending the Army Command and Staff Course at both Shrivenham and Camberley. Thereafter he was Military Assistant to the Chief of Staff British Army of the Rhine and a member of the Directing Staff at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. At Regimental Duty he was both a Company Commander in, and Commanding Officer of, 1st Bn The Green Howards in the Mechanised and Airmobile roles, and in Northern Ireland.
More recently General Houghton was Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G3 (Operations & Deployment) in HQ Land Command 1994 - 1997 and attended the Higher Command and Staff Course in 1997. He commanded 39 Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland from 1997 to 1999 and was the Director of Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence from December 1999 to July 2002. He was Chief of Staff of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps from July 2002 to April 2004 before becoming the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) from May 2004 to October 2005.
He was the Senior British Military Representative Iraq and Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq from October 2005 until assuming his current appointment as Chief of Joint Operations at PJHQ (UK) in March 2006.
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| Preceded by Sir Glenn Torpy |
Chief of Joint Operations 2006–Present |
Succeeded by Current Incumbent |
| Preceded by New creation |
Colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment 2006–Present |
Succeeded by Current Incumbent |
