bentley priory - Spink

September 6, 2012 - LONDON
Flight Lieutenant Mark Wolfe Rickard, Commissioned
Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force, 6.10.1994; promoted Flying
Officer, 6.4.1997; served in Operation Northern Watch as
part of the R.A.F.s Operation Warden detachment during the
summer of 1998, and posted to HQ Command Task Force
Base, Incirlik, Turkey, as part of the mission to enforce the
No Fly Zone in Northern Iraq; received a Certificate of
Appreciation ‘For outstanding contributions in support of
the Northern Iraq security and humanitarian relief effort
during Operation Northern Watch Operation Warden’;
served in Operation Joint Guardian in Former Yugoslavia in
command of the RAF Mobile Administration Support Team
in Croatia, Macedonia, and Kosovo, as part of NATO’s Allied
Rapid Reaction Corps, 16.4.1999-8.7.2000, and took part in
the famous rush to Pristina Airfield under the command of
Major General M. Jackson, June 1999; promoted Flight
Lieutenant, 6.4.2001; retired, 1.9.2003.
Flight Lieutenant M.W. Rickard (front row, third from right) outside the H.Q. Command
Task Force Base at Incirlik, Turkey, during Operation Northern Watch
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