Complex sentence: Lieutenant General Gordon Kenneth Messenger & Bar, (born 15 April 1962) is a Royal Marines officer and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff with effect from May 2016, in succession to Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach.
Split into simpler sentences: Lieutenant General Gordon Kenneth Messenger & Bar, (born 15 April 1962) is a Royal Marines officer. Messenger is to be appointed the next Vice Chief of the Defence Staff with effect from the spring of 2016, in succession to Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach.