(Major General) Craig Lawrence is a serving Army officer, commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurka Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) in 1984. During his career he has served in the UK, Germany, Nepal, Hong Kong, Canada, South Africa, Belize and Brunei and has commanded Gurkhas on operations in Bosnia and the Ivory Coast.
He is currently Colonel of the The Royal Gurkha Rifles and has just returned from an 11-month deployment to Afghanistan. He has also written the official commemorative book The Gurkhas: 200 Years of Service to the Crown (1815-2015) in support of the Gurkha Welfare Trust.