Commodore A J G Miller CBE Royal Navy

Educated at Gordonstoun, Jamie Miller spent the majority of his career at sea, mostly in operational theatres.  Initial sea appointments included the destroyer, HMS Cavalier, the frigate HMS Mohawk and Navigator of the minehunter HMS Bossington – which spent 9 months clearing bombs and mines from the Suez Canal for OP Rheostat post the 1973 Yom Kippur.  Qualifying as a Spanish Interpreter he became Flag Lieutenant to the Commander in Chief Fleet.  Thence Navigator of the Air Defence destroyer Sheffield and CO of the patrol boat HMS Kingfisher for Northern Ireland Operations.  After qualifying as a principal Warfare Officer (Above Water) he took part in the 1982 Falklands conflict serving as an Interpreter and Officer of the Watch.

Promoted Lieutenant Commander in May 1982, just before surviving the sinking of both HMS Coventry and his liferaft, he moved on to be Operations Officer of the frigate HMS Danae, deployed inevitably back to the South Atlantic. From 1985 he was in charge of Officer of the Watch training at HMS Dryad until 1987 when he was appointed Second and First Lieutenant of HMY Britannia which included a world circumnavigation for Her Majesty’s visit to Australia. 

Promoted Commander in 1988, he assumed Command of the frigate HMS Avenger, deploying again to the Falklands, South America, the West Indies for counter drugs operations.  In 1991 he was made responsible for Warfare training at HMS Dryad School of Maritime Operations until 1993 he became Executive Officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal spending, during his time with her, eight months in the Adriatic on Operation Hamden/Deny Flight for Bosnia Operations.  Promotion to Captain took him to London as the Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord staffing operational aspects and generating political/military interaction.  Appointed in Command of the 4th Frigate Squadron in 1997, he brought HMS Marlborough out of refit, moving forward in 1998 to a Mediterranean deployment, including six months on Atlantic Patrol Task (North) duties engaged on a wide variety of Defence Diplomacy tasks and counter drugs operations throughout the Caribbean.  Highlights of this period, amongst several arrests, were two major seizures of cocaine, a total of 9.6 tonnes.  He then became in July 1999, the Deputy to the Royal Navy’s Sea Training Admiral, responsible for working up and inspecting ships, averaging 110 units a year from 17 different nations.

Promoted Commodore and Commander Amphibious Task Group in July 2001 he immediately led the group to the Gulf for Ex Saif Sareea II/Argonaut off Oman.  Following the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks, the Task Group remained on station until Apr 2002 for Operations Veritas, Oracle and Jacana and he was embarked, as Commander of the Amphibians in Fearless, Illustrious and Ocean.  Appointed Aide de Camp to Her Majesty the Queen in Nov 2001, he then exercised command from both HMS Ark Royal and HNLMS Rotterdam, controlling the RN’s Mediterranean deployment.  Between January-April 2003 he commanded, again from the Ark Royal, the Amphibious Task Group for OP TELIC, some 22 ships, 45 helicopters and 7000 people, where he executed the amphibious assault on the Al Faw peninsula off southern Iraq.  This subsequently led to him being awarded the Legion of Merit (Officer) by the President of the USA and the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service and thence appointed to be a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
 
As NRCWWE he is effectively the Naval Attaché in Wales and Western England; he represents the Royal Navy at various ceremonies and public events, participates in the Welsh Assembly’s Chief Officer’s group; establishes and maintains good relations with local authorities and committees and other government bodies; co-ordinates the detailed arrangements for visits of RN and foreign warships to commercial ports in the region, and provides advice at Regional Resilience Forums and on planned Naval representational activities to enhance the RN profile and role in Wales and Western England. From January 2007 he will be responsible for Recruiting and control of Maritime Reserve Forces in the Region.
 
Jamie Miller is married to Linda and they have 4 children, Poppy (1989), Holly (1990), Primrose (1992) and Barnaby (1996).  Home is Port Isaac, North Cornwall, where his interests focus on the family, garden, beaches and if time permits, collecting lead soldiers.