New Shadow Arts Minister Is Former SFSG

11.01.2012

Recent newspaper articles about the new Labour Shadow Arts Minister, Dan Jarvis, reveal he is a former member of the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG). Jarvis served in the Parachute Regiment as a 3 PARA platoon commander in Kosovo in 1999. Later, as a Major in 1 PARA, he commanded a company of SFSG in Afghanistan. He recently received an MBE for his military service.

more info, further reading:

• Dan Jarvis: a very unlikely arts ministera
  (the guardian)
  
  
• Barnsley Central by-election: Labour victor Dan Jarvis is former Parachute Regiment officer
  (earlier telegraph report on when Jarvis became an MP)
  
  
• MBE for Dan Jarvis, Army major turned Barnsley MP
  (bbc news)

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