Mark Brewer (soldier) explained

Mark Brewer
Allegiance:	Australia
Branch:	Australian Army
Rank:	Brigadier
Commands:	Royal Military College, Duntroon Joint Task Force 629 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment
Battles:	War in Afghanistan
Awards:	Member of the Order of Australia Conspicuous Service Cross & Bar Bronze Star Medal (United States)

Brigadier Mark Andrew Brewer, 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: RMC-D leaders . 3 June 2017.
2. Web site: Roll of Commandants . . 3 June 2017.
3. 1133634 . 12 June 2006 . BREWER, Mark Andrew . Conspicuous Service Cross . CSC . 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) . 3 June 2017 .
4. 1144054 . 26 January 2011 . BREWER, Mark Andrew . Conspicuous Service Cross and Bar . CSC . 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 . 3 June 2017 .
5. Web site: Member (AM) in the Military Division of the Order of Australia. Australia Day 2018 Honours List. Office of the Governor-General of Australia. 26 January 2018. 29 June 2019.