Brigadier Adam Fraser-Hitchen

Deputy Commander 3 UK Division British Army

Brigadier Adam Fraser-Hitchen joined the Army 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 in 1992. He has filled a mix of Combat and Combat Service Support roles throughout his career with early regimental appointments including OC Pre-Para Selection in 5 Airborne Brigade, regimental operations officer in 7 (Para) Royal Horse Artillery for a Northern Ireland commitment and on promotion to major, nine months as an operations officer in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. 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 Southern 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 in 2014 as the Chief of Staff to Director Support before retiring early from the Regular Army in 2016 to better support his family. As a Reserve Officer, highlights include three years as Deputy Commander (Reserves) 7 Infantry Brigade and more recently as Head Personnel (Reserves) in Army HQ. Brigadier Fraser-Hitchen was appointed as Deputy Commander (Reserves) 3rd (UK) Division in September 2024. Outside of this role, he is the Chief Operating Officer for the UK's Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire and as a Chartered Engineer, he is a Fellow and Past President of the Society of Operations Engineers. Married to Mandy, herself a former career-soldier and now a Chartered Engineer with British Aerospace (Combat Air), he has three sons. He has a lasting fascination for military genealogy and attempts to retain his youth through fell-running, cycling and ‘slower-than-previous’ snowboarding.