Major General Lizzie Faithfull-Davies CBE

Director Land Equipment DE&S

Major General Lizzie Faithfull-Davies was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1999 having completed a MEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University. She served in a variety of units at as an engineering officer, predominantly armoured and armoured infantry. She completed operational deployments to Northern Ireland and Bosnia, Iraq on Op TELIC 4 and 6, and to Afghanistan on Op HERRICK 11 and 13. She has also been a platoon and company commander at RMAS. She has commanded from platoon to brigade and was recognised with a CBE for work in support of the national Covid response.

At staff, she has worked in corporate communications, resource planning and capability management. Her last appointment in Army HQ was Head Programmes and she was appointed as Director Land Equipment in DE&S in March 24.

Most of her spare time is devoted to being in the outdoors with her two “army-issue” black Labradors and she loves to go hiking, mountaineering, skiing, open water swimming and trail running. Her sport is ultra-running, preferring (for some strange reason) to run multi-day events covering hundreds of miles over trails and mountains. She loves to travel and has explored Peru, Bolivia, Cambodia and Vietnam.