Association Board Member, Essex RFCA Chair

Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Jackie Allan QVRM TD DL served for 42 years as a British Army Reservist, joining her local Territorial Army (TA) Royal Signals unit while she worked for British Telecom.

Her uniformed service included command of 36 Signal Regiment between 1998 and 2000, mobilisation to Baghdad in 2006 as a liaison officer with the US Embassy, and tours as a TA staff officer with Royal Signals and Military Intelligence. She has been President of the East London branch of the Royal Signals Association and a member of the Essex Army Benevolent Fund committee.

Jackie also has more than two decades of experience with East Anglia RFCA, becoming Deputy Chief Executive in 2000 and, after she left that post, became vice-chair of the Essex county forum she now chairs.

A graduate of St Andrew’s University, Jackie was a primary school governor for 16 years and organises the Silver End Burns Supper. Her principal hobby is piping with Essex Caledonian Pipe Band plus organising Colchester’s annual piping contest.