Gurkha Brigade Association Secretary – Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Adrian Jones

Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) (Retd) Adrian Jones was commissioned into The Queens Regiment in 1984. During the 1980s he served in the UK, Northern Ireland, The Falkland Islands, Germany and Cyprus filling Platoon Commander, Company 2IC and Operations Officer roles at regimental duty as well as a training platoon commander at the Junior Infantry Battalion Shorncliffe. In the early 1990s he was an instructor at both the Northern Ireland Training Advisory Team and on the Senior NCOs Tactics Course at Brecon before an attachment to The Second Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles (RGR) in Brunei. After transferring to RGR in 1995 he served in Germany as a Staff Officer in HQ 4 Armoured Brigade in Osnabruck before commanding A Company 1 RGR in Church Crookham, including an operational tour in Kosovo.

After completing language training and attending the Spanish Armed Forces Staff College in Madrid he completed his Grade 2 Staff job in HQ Theatre Troops before returning to 1 RGR as Battalion Second in Command. During this period the battalion completed an operational tour in Bosnia and as UK Spearhead battalion carried out a Non- Combatants Evacuation operation in Cote d’Ivoire.  Having completed Regimental duty he was employed in the Defence Intelligence Staff as a Liaison Officer carrying out 22 deployments to 20 different countries over a three-year period. On promotion to Lt Col he served as a Staff Officer in MOD at the NATO & Europe Policy Directorate and subsequently in the Operations Directorate during which he deployed to Colombia as Chief of Staff of a cross government advisory team to the President of Colombia as well as mentoring the Home Office Border Force Strategic Planning Team. His final position prior to retiring in 2026 was in the Army HQ Futures Directorate multinational interoperability team.

He is a keen traveller and has regularly planned and led Battlefield Studies around Europe, most recently to Gallipoli in 2024.