List of serving senior officers of the Royal Marines

This is a list of serving senior officers of the Royal Marines. It includes currently serving Royal Marine generals, lieutenant-generals, major-generals and brigadiers.^[1]

Lieutenant-Generals

Name	Photo	Appointment	Decorations	Date of promotion	Ref
Robert Andrew Magowan		Deputy Commander, Strategic Command	CB CBE	22 January 2020	[2]

Major-Generals

Name	Photo	Appointment	Decorations	Date of promotion	Ref
Charles Stickland		Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations and Commitments)	CB, OBE	23 October 2017	[3]
Matthew Holmes		Commandant General Royal Marines	CBE, DSO	9 May 2018	[4]
Gwyn Jenkins			CB, OBE	21 January 2019	[5]
James A. J. Morris		Director of Joint Warfare, Strategic Command	DSO	1 April 2019	[6]
Ewen A. Murchison		Deputy Adviser, Ministry of Interior Affairs (Afghanistan)	MBE	4 May 2020	[7]

Brigadiers

Name	Photo	Appointment	Decorations	Date of promotion	Ref
Graeme W. Fraser		Naval Regional Commander Wales & Western England (NRC WWE)	MBE		[8]
Rory S. Copinger-Symes		to retire	CBE	25 July 2016	[9]
Matthew F. Pierson		Defence Adviser, UK Mission to the European Union	CBE	24 July 2017	[10]
Haydn J. White				2017
James E. Maybery			MBE	1 February 2018	[11]
Simon J. Scott			OBE	6 November 2018	[12]
Matthew J.A. Jackson		Student at the Royal College of Defence Studies	DSO	11 December 2018	[5]
Daniel Blanchford		Chief of Joint Operations, Permanent Joint Headquarters	OBE	12 August 2019	[13]
Dan Cheesman		Chief Technology Officer, Navy Command		2020	[14]
Alan Litster			MBE	2020
Steven J. Hussey		Head of Air Manoeuvre Capability, Army Command	MBE	14 January 2020	[15]
Leonard A. Brown		Head of Futures and Strategic Analysis, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre	MBE	17 February 2020	[16]
Michael J. Tanner		Chief of Staff Navy Command	OBE	20 February 2020	[16]
Paul P. Lynch		Commander, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence	MC	18 March 2020	[17]
Richard J. Read		Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Resources and Plans)		6 April 2020	[7]
Richard J. Cantrill		Commander, 3 Commando Brigade	OBE, MC	2 September 2020	[18]

Related pages

• List of serving senior officers of the Royal Navy