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2Lt Tommy Westlake: Tommy comes from Dorset and was is a keen sportsman, having played in county-level junior football
educated at Lytchett Minster School and went to University West of England (Hartbury) to study Agriculture Business Management. His main sporting interest is rugby and has played for Bournemouth RFC, Hartpbury, county and regional teams and 7s for the Irish Exiles which got him onto the Irish sevens training squad for the Rio Olympics. He has also boxed at both Poole and Gloucester boxing clubs. He also has a passion for sur ng and has been involved with livestock farming in Dorset and Northern Ireland. Tommy commissioned into 2RIFLES.
2Lt Will Wheeler: Will’s parents were in the Foreign Of ce, so he was born in England but lived in Russia, Canada and Guyana. He was educated at Gordonstoun and Loughborough, whence he graduated in 2015 with a 2:2 in Mathematics with Sports Science. At school he was Head Boy, and played rugby for the 1st XV, with tours to Croatia and to Hilton College, South Africa (where he also did a student exchange) and volunteered for the school mountain rescue service. He was in the UOTC, and gained a Reserve Commission as well as going on a climbing expedition in the Alps, scuba diving in the Red Sea and he also did a solo backpacking trip to Bolivia. He is also a keen athlete. Will commissioned into 3RIFLES.
2Lt Gwilym Wyn-Jones: Gwilym comes from the Cotswolds and was educated at Wycliffe College and Shef eld University where he graduated in 2015 with a 2:2 in Politics and International Relations. Following graduation, he remained in Shef eld and worked for the Army Reserves as a platoon commander with the Doncaster Platoon of D (RIFLES) Company, 5RRF. He has climbed in Slovenia, Austria and Norway, joined the 3RIFLES Nordic ski team for an exercise in Norway, kayaked white water in France, Canada and Norway and is a kayak guide and white water rescuer. He has done the 3 Peaks challenge and a basic para-gliding course in New Zealand, and completed a Cambrian Patrol. He is also a dry stone waller in the Cotswolds. Gwilym won the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst, and commissioned into 3RIFLES.
We welcome into the regiment the following of cers who commissioned on 11th August 2017:
2Lt Morgan Bywater: Morgan comes originally from Loughborough, and was educated at de Lisle College and then Leeds University, whence he graduated in 2015 with a 2:1 in English and History. Before starting at Leeds he spent 8 months travelling and working in Eastern Europe and 2 months working in Paris. At University, he was an active member of the OTC, promoted to SUO, and he managed to include some useful sporting achievements in the football team (the Army Minor Units nalists at Aldershot). He rst met 5RIFLES whilst on UOTC annual camp. After university he spent 6 months cycling the length of the Andes Mountains, raising money for Help for Heroes. At Sandhurst, Morgan was promoted to JUO and won the Commandant’s Merit Award. He has commissioned into 3RIFLES.
and rugby before university, later representing UK at international level in rowing, and also winning Sport UK funding for his athletics. As an OCdt, Jack represented RMAS at the Army Cross-Country championships, and captained the Sandhurst Cup team in the international military academies competition in the USA. Jack has commissioned into 3RIFLES
2Lt Seb Clarke: Seb comes from near Cheltenham, and he was educated at Stowe School, before going to Exeter University, without any gap, to study History and Sports Science. His course included a year at Brock University in Canada working in a Sport Law strategy group. He graduated in 2015 with a 2:1 - his dissertation was on class discrimination in the British Army in WW1. After university, he used his history degree to work as author’s researcher for a book about The Great War. Seb is from a farming family, and his father also spent 6 years military service with the Glosters. Seb is an active and keen sportsman, pro cient at hockey, but excelling at rugby (wing / full back): he was on The Barbarians Rugby committee. Although not an experienced long-distance runner, whilst visiting 1RIFLES in 2015 he nished 15th out of 200 in the Chepstow Stampede. Seb has commissioned by happy coincidence back into 1RIFLES.
2Lt James Deeny: James was born in Cambridge but spent most of his growing years in the South West and South Wales. He was educated at South Bromsgove School in Worcestershire, and went on to study Creative Music Technology at UWE, gaining a BSc Hons 1st Class, and subsequently, from Cardiff University, a MMus (merit) in Composition. His rst job thereafter was staging international events in classical music. He next gained a PGCE from Cardiff Metropolitan, before spending 2 years as Head of Music at a large comprehensive school in South Wales. In this role, he was musical director for all the school’s major productions, and took a party of 80 musicians and staff to the USA for a musical tour. As a performer, he was 1st Violin in the UWE Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, and guitar in the Big Band. He also coached rugby at his school; and was President of the UWE Triathlon Club. James has commissioned into 5RIFLES.
2Lt Tom Jeffries: Tom enjoyed an outdoor upbringing near Royston, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Freman College and then Leicester University, whence he gained a 1st Class BA (Hons) in International Relations - his dissertation was on The Renewal of Trident. After university Tom went jungle-trekking in Thailand, and travelled extensively in Asia and the Antipodes. He is a keen sportsman, with a special enthusiasm from a very young age for rugby: he has played for his County Under-20s, and in his nal year at University was Club Captain, with success on the eld balanced by winning the Club of the Year award for his reorganisation of on- and off- eld working practices. Tom has connections with the Regiment from his grandfather’s service with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire light Infantry. He has commissioned into 3RIFLES.
2Lt Jack Cadman: Jack comes from London, and was educated
at the Rush Croft and then Davenant Foundation Schools. He
then went to Bath University, gaining a 2:2 BSc in Economics
in 2013. His degree course included a Year in Industry with the
management consultants, Accenture. After university, Jack spent
several years in the City, rst in recruitment and then investment
management, and nished as a Publisher Manager at The Times
newspaper. Alongside work, Jack made time to give considerable
organisational and fundraising support to the charity CALM. He speaking communities. After graduation, James took up another
2Lt James McAllister: James was born in Perth and spent the majority of his formative years in Scotland. He was educated at Strathallan School and then read Chinese and International Relations at Leeds University, achieving a 2:1 BA(Hons). The course included a year in Beijing, and some travelling in China and Mongolia, which prompted him to return to work as an intern with a multi-national construction company in Shanghai. Most of this extended period in China involved working on his own with little access to English-
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