Nick Cowley

Nicholas David Guise Cowley, is a senior British Army officer who has been serving as the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since October 2024.

Early life

Cowley was educated at Ludgrove School.

Military career

Cowley was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Hussars on 22 September 1997 and was deployed during the Kosovo War and the Iraq War. He was wounded during a tour in Afghanistan in 2013 and was deployed to Iraq again in 2016. He became commanding officer of the Queen's Royal Hussars in Germany in 2017, military assistant to the Chief of the General Staff in 2019, and commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team in 2021. He was promoted major general on 18 October 2024, as he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and General Officer Commanding Army Recruiting and Initial Training Command.
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours and advanced to Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours.