About Michael Wilkins
Lived 1933 – 1994 (aged 61). Michael Wilkins was a British military personnel.
Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins, (4 January 1933 – 25 April 1994) was a senior Royal Marines officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey from 1990 to 1994.
Military career Wilkins joined the Royal Marines in 1951. He was appointed Commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1979, Chief of Staff of the Royal Marines in 1981 (a post he held during the Falklands War and during which he was Acting Commandant General following the attack on Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle), and Commander of Commando Forces in 1982. He went on to be Commandant General Royal Marines in 1984 before retiring in 1987.
Wilkins lived at Coombe Hill in Devon.
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British Army general
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Michael Wilkins was born on 4 January 1933.
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Michael Wilkins died on 25 April 1994.
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Michael Wilkins was a military personnel.
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