About John Craig Lawrence
Born 1963. John Craig Lawrence is a writer.
Major General John Craig Lawrence (born 18 October 1963) is a retired British Army officer whose last appointment was as the Director of Joint Warfare at the Directorate of Joint Warfare. He is now an author and lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies. Commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), he joined this unit in 1987 after finishing university.
Lawrence was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours. He was upgraded to Commander of the order in 2013.
Lawrence's first book was a commemorative history of the Gurkhas titled The Gurkhas: 200 Years of Service to the Crown and was published on 30 April 2015. The second, titled The Legacy, is an action-adventure novel and was published on 21 May 2015.
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