Jonathon Riley
Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley served for 40 years in the British Army. He commanded troops of many nations, at all levels, on operations in Northern Ireland, Central America, the Balkans, the Persian Gulf and Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1996. He was made an Officer of the Legion of Merit of the U.S.A. in 2005 and a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 2008. He holds the degrees of BA, MA and PhD and has published a total of 30 books of biography and military history, including, for Helion & Co: The Last Ironsides (2013); Oft in Danger (2015); Ghosts of Old Companions (2016); The Colonial Ironsides (2023); and three volumes of Regimental Records of The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Books
- Britain’s Spanish Ulcer : The American Revolutionary War in Florida, the Mississippi, the Caribbean and Central America, 1779-1783 Author
- Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689–2014 Volume VIII : 2001-2014 with Supplement, 1689-2014 Author
- The Last Ironsides : The English Expedition to Portugal 1662-1668 Author
- The Colonial Ironsides : English Expeditions under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1650-1660 Author
- Ghosts of Old Companions : Lloyd George's Welsh Army, the Kaiser's Reichsheer and the Battle for Mametz Wood, 1914-1916 Author
- Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V 1918-1945 Part One : November 1918-May 1940 Author
- Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V 1918-1945 Part Two : June 1940-December 1945 Author
- Oft in Danger : The Life and Campaigns of General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley Author
