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Mark Brewer
AllegianceAustralia
Service / branchAustralian Army
RankBrigadier
CommandsRoyal Military College, Duntroon
Joint Task Force 629
2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment
Battles / warsWar in Afghanistan
AwardsMember of the Order of Australia
Conspicuous Service Cross & Bar
Bronze Star Medal (United States)

Brigadier Mark Andrew Brewer, AM, CSC & Bar is a senior Australian Army officer and a former Commandant of Royal Military College, Duntroon, the officer training school of the Australian Army. He held this position from 2016 to 2017.[1] He graduated from Duntroon in 1987.[2]

Brewer has been awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) twice. He received the CSC in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours,[3] and received a Bar for it in the 2011 Australia Day Honours.[4] He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Australia Day Honours.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "RMC-D leaders". Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Roll of Commandants". Australian Army. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) entry for BREWER, Mark Andrew". Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2017. For outstanding achievement as Staff Officer Grade One (Operations) Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Project and the Commanding Officer of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry)
  4. ^ "Conspicuous Service Cross and Bar (CSC) entry for BREWER, Mark Andrew". Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2017. For outstanding achievement in a non-warlike situation as Commander Joint Task Force 629 on Operation PADANG ASSIST in the aftermath of the 30 September 2009 earthquake in western Sumatra
  5. ^ "Member (AM) in the Military Division of the Order of Australia" (PDF). Australia Day 2018 Honours List. Office of the Governor-General of Australia. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2019.