Nick Cowley
{{Short description|British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
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| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = British Army
| serviceyears = 2000 – present
| rank = Major-General
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| commands = Queen's Royal Hussars
16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team
Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
| battles = Kosovo War
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
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Major-General Nicholas David Guise Cowley, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|OBE}} is a senior British Army officer who has been serving as the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since October 2024.
Early life
Military career
File:Lt. Col. Nick Cowley briefs his soldiers.jpg
Cowley was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Hussars on 22 September 1997{{London Gazette|issue=54943|page=12648|date=10 November 1997|supp=y}} and was deployed during the Kosovo War and the Iraq War. He was wounded during a tour in Afghanistan in 2013 and was deployed to Iraq again in 2016. He became commanding officer of the Queen's Royal Hussars in Germany in 2017, military assistant to the Chief of the General Staff in 2019, and commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.defenceiq.com/events-internationalarmouredvehicles/speakers/brigadier-nick-cowley-obe|title=Brigadier Nick Cowley OBE|publisher=Defence IQ|access-date=4 December 2024}} He was promoted major general on 18 October 2024,{{London Gazette|issue=64584|page=24502|supp=y|date=3 December 2024}} as he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.{{cite web|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/media/fn4leucc/20241105-cal_msn_cmd_pack-final-1.pdf|title=Leadership and Mission Command; Centre for Army Leadership Annual Conference 2024|page=4|publisher=British Army|access-date=4 December 2024}}
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours{{London Gazette|issue=61256|page=B7|date=13 June 2015|supp=y}} and advanced to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=62866|page=N6|date=28 December 2019|supp=y}}
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Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:British Army major generals
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Commandants of Sandhurst
Category:Queen's Royal Hussars officers
Category:20th-century British Army personnel
Category:British Army personnel of the Iraq War
Category:British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)