Craig Lawrence

Major General John Craig Lawrence CBE (born 18 October 1963), known as Craig Lawrence or J. C. Lawrence, is a retired British Army officer whose last appointment was as the Director of Joint Warfare at the Directorate of Joint Warfare.^[1] He is now an author and lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies.^[1]

Lawrence was educated at Hill House School, St Peter's School, York and Durham University, where he read engineering.^[1][2] Commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), he joined this unit in 1987 after finishing university.^[1] According to his personal website, he has served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments. As a Brigadier, he served in Afghanistan as the director of the International Security Assistance Force's Election Support Cell and was awarded the Afghan Ministry of the Interior's Honour and Service Medal.^[3]

Lawrence was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours.^[4] He was upgraded to Commander of the order in 2013.^[5]

Lawrence's first book was a commemorative history of the Gurkhas titled The Gurkhas: 200 Years of Service to the Crown^[6] and was published on 30 April 2015. The second, titled The Legacy,^[7] is an action-adventure novel and was published on 21 May 2015.