b. 1963 Taunton, Somerset.
DATE OF CGC ACTION: 01/10/2001 to 31/03/2002 Afghanistan.
Jeremy M Merchant CGC
Jeremy Merchant was born in Taunton, Somerset in 1963. He served in the Royal Marines and Special Forces for over 30 years. His diverse military career has left him with a broad range of useful skills including extensive experience of understanding and working with people in multi-cultural environments, and operating in often stressful and complex situations spanning peacekeeping, combating organised crime, countering terrorism and war fighting.
Jeremy held a broad range of command appointments in the UK Special Forces and wider Royal Marines. He has been responsible for brokering and establishing political, legal and administrative arrangements to enable a variety of complex military operations in the UK and abroad and for managing the individual and collective training requirements for large numbers of personnel in support of a wide range of activities. He was involved in all of the UK’s major conflicts since 1981 and was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for his role on field operations in Afghanistan in 2002. His citation was not published in the London Gazette until 2005. He was mentioned in despatches in 1991 for his actions as a Corporal in Northern Ireland.
His more recent broad commercial experience has seen him planning and executing complex security risk mitigation tasks for both private and multi-national clients in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Far East.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: WITH RECIPIENT.
