Ian Cave
Lieutenant General Ian John Cave, is a British Army officer who has served as Commander Home Command since June 2021. Military career. Cave was commissioned into the Queen's Lancashire Regiment on 4 September 1987. He served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the Mercian Regiment and in that capacity saw action in the Iraq War in 2008, for which he was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service. He went on to be Commander, Initial Training Group in February 2011, Director of Training, Field Army in February 2014 and Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans), Joint  Force Command Naples in July 2015. After that he became Chief of Staff, Field Army in April 2018 and Commander Home Command in June 2021. Cave has also been Colonel of the Mercian Regiment since 2018, and Colonel Commandant of the Infantry since 2021. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2020 New Year Honours.