General Sir John McColl was Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey between September 2011- March 2017.
General Sir John McColl a career Army Officer with an infantry background and was deployed in East Tyrone, Bosnia and Kosovo between 1992 and 2000. As General of Command of the 3rd UK Division he deployed to Afghanistan to establish the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF 1) in 2002 and in 2004 he moved to Baghdad as Deputy Commander of the Multi National Force Iraq.
In early 2005 he took on the additional appointment of the UK’s Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan, which ended with the deployment of HQ ARRC in April 2006. His final serving appointment was as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe which he relinquished in March 2011.
