New county ACF Commandant

Colonel Adam Fraser-Hitchen joined the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers as a junior soldier in 1986, spending five years as an Armourer with the Royal Anglian Regiment and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, before being commissioned into the corps in 1992. He has filled a mix of combat and combat service support roles throughout his career. He attended the Advanced Command & Staff Course over the period 2001-2003 where he completed a King’s College Master’s Degree in Defence Studies. He qualified as a chartered engineer over the same period. He has served in NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps on three occasions, has extensive experience of the Canadian prairies and has commanded on operations as a company, battalion and group commander (in Sourthern Iraq on Op TELIC 10 and Afghanistan on Op HERRICK 12, 16 and 17 respectively). His second tour as a Colonel saw him appointed to Army HQ as the chief of staff to director support in 2014 before retiring early from the regular Army in 2017 to better support his family. Now a reserve officer, he has been Deputy Commander (Reserves) 7 Infantry Brigade & HQ East since 2017.

Colonel Fraser-Hitchen owns a business consultancy with his wife, herself a former careersoldier and chartered engineer, and has three sons. Having settled in Derbyshire, he is a Fellow and the next president of the Society of Operations Engineers, has a lasting fascination for military genealogy and attempts to retain his youth through fell-running, cycling and ‘slower-than-previous’ snowboarding.