Andrew Stewart (British Army officer)


Andrew Richard Evelyn De Cardonnel Stewart is a former British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division, Iraq.

Military career

Educated at Felsted School, Stewart was commissioned into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1972. He became Commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in December 1996, Assistant Chief of Staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood November 1999 and Director of Military Assistance Overseas at the Ministry of Defence in December 2001. He was deployed as General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division, Iraq in December 2003 and became Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2004. He retired in 2008.