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2nd December 2011

Retired Major General Speaks at Breakfast

 

Retired Major General Tim Cross CBE was the guest speaker at the KCI Men's Breakfast on the 26th November.

Held at the Harte & Garter Hotel in Windsor, more than 70 men listened to him speak about the ‘Moral Component of Fighting Power.'

Cross, who was commissioned into the British Army in 1971, commanded at every level in the British army before retiring in 2007.

During the breakfast he described how the British Army uses three components to define its fighting power: ‘physical; conceptual; and moral.'

Cross said it was time for society to re-discover the ‘moral component' when addressing the needs of the country today. ‘Too often [answers] are limited to making new laws or throwing money at a problem.'

There was an absolute necessity for public life to regain a moral element based upon Christian truths, he said.

Following the address, the Deputy Mayor for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Councillor Colin Raynor, thanked the retired General for his comments.

During the course of his career Cross led a small Bomb Disposal Team in Northern Ireland in the 1970's and commanded a Division of 30,000 men in Iraq between 2004 and 2007.

In 1999, as a Brigadier in command of 101 Logistic Brigade, he deployed to Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo and was later appointed CBE for his work in leading the NATO response to the Humanitarian crisis.

In 2002, he was involved in planning for operations in Iraq, deploying to Washington, Kuwait and Baghdad as the UK representative to the US-led Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs, the agency responsible for drawing up plans for post war Iraq. He subsequently worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority which administered Iraq in the aftermath of the war.

A licensed lay reader in the Church of England, Cross is a Trustee of the British and Foreign Bible Society and is engaged with a number of both Christian and secular organisations and charities.

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