Michael Wilkins (Royal Marines officer)
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|name= Sir Michael Wilkins
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|caption= Lieutenant General Wilkins in 1986
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|birth_date= {{birth date|1933|01|04|df=yes}}
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|death_date= {{death date and age|1994|04|25|1933|01|04|df=yes}}
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
|branch= Royal Marines
|serviceyears= 1951–1987
|rank= Lieutenant General
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|commands= Commandant General Royal Marines
3 Commando Brigade
40 Commando
|battles= Cyprus Emergency
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
The Troubles
|awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Lieutenant General Sir Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|OBE}} (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.{{London Gazette|issue=39348|supp=y|page=5118|date=2 October 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),[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1563396/Major-General-Sir-Jeremy-Moore.html Obituary: Major-General Sir Jeremy Moore] Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2007 and Commander of Commando Forces in 1982.[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf Royal Navy appointments] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711133321/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |date=2011-07-11 }} He went on to be Commandant General Royal Marines in 1984 before retiring in 1987. In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey and died in office.[http://www.theodora.com/wfb1991/guernsey/guernsey_government.html Guernsey Government 1991]
Wilkins lived at Coombe Hill in Devon.{{Cite web |url=http://comberaleigh.org/Houses.html |title=Houses |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-date=13 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813210630/http://comberaleigh.org/Houses.html |url-status=dead }}
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Category:British military personnel of the Cyprus Emergency