Ian Gordon (general)

Major General Ian Campbell Gordon AO is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He had a long and distinguished career culminating as Deputy Chief of Army and Head of Mission of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization .

Gordon was born in Perth, Western Australia, onMarch 1952 to Glenice Pascoe and Ivor Gordon, a decorated bomber pilot who flew with No. 455 Squadron RAAF in the Second World War. Educated at Swanbourne High School, Gordon entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon as an officer cadet in 1970. He graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Military Studies, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals.

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