Mark Brewer (soldier)

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]

Mark Brewer
AllegianceAustralia
Service/branchAustralian Army
RankBrigadier
Commands heldRoyal 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)

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
  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". It's an Honour, 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". It's an Honour, 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.
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