Lieutenant General Sir Tyrone Urch, KBE is a former senior British Army officer who, during his career, served as General Officer Commanding, Force Troops Command and later Commander, Home Command.

Commissioned by The Queens Gurkha Engineers, I captured General Urch at the London Studio. The final Portrait to hang in the Regimental Mess.

Urch was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 4 June 1984. In 2001, as officer commanding 20 Field Squadron, he led the construction of two schools, a new hangar at Price Barracks and a jungle research station in Belize. He became Commanding Officer of 22 Engineer Regiment in 2004, and was deployed to Iraq later that year He went on to be Commander of 1st Mechanised Brigade in December 2008, Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations at the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in December 2010, and Chief of Staff for Land Forces in October 2012. After that he became General Officer Commanding Force Troops Command in February 2015; he was promoted to lieutenant-general and became Commander Home Command in June 2018.

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