16 Facts About Hugh McManners

Hugh McManners is an English musician and author, and a campaigner for medical research to help war veterans.

Hugh McManners has previous experience with various bands including as singer and guitarist for The BashBand, Hugh was bass guitarist for the Leicester heavy rock band Medusa in the 1970s, and the Coventry-based reggae band Cabstars.

Hugh McManners was born into an academic family in Oxford, the son of historian The Rev Professor John McManners, and was brought up in Australia.

Hugh McManners read Geography at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford from 1975 to 1978.

Hugh McManners was bass guitarist in the Leicester heavy rock band Medusa, before serving eighteen years in the British Army.

Hugh McManners was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1973 and was promoted Lieutenant in 1974, Captain in 1979,.

Hugh McManners spent five years with 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery, as a commando, paratrooper, and an army diving supervisor; he ran the British Army's jungle warfare training school in Belize.

Hugh McManners wrote about this in his first book Falklands Commando.

Hugh McManners then passed the year-long Army Staff College course at Camberley.

Hugh McManners was promoted Major in 1985, and spent two years working at the Ministry of Defence in London.

Hugh McManners has served at Fort Ord California with the US Army's 2nd Infantry Division, on counter terrorist duties in Armagh, Northern Ireland, and with the United Nations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion of 1974.

Hugh McManners was the Defence Correspondent of The Sunday Times newspaper for five years, and contributed to other major UK newspapers including The Observer and The Daily Telegraph writing an article in The Independent regarding the controversial shoot to kill policy.

Hugh McManners has co-produced a list of television documentaries and series on military subjects.

Hugh McManners co-presented the BBC2 Bare Necessities survival series and the Radio 4 series The Psychology of War.

Hugh McManners is the author of many military books including the Scars of War, and several Dorling Kindersley titles, including the Outdoor Training Manual and the Commando Survival Guide.

Hugh McManners writes songs, some of which reflect on his past as a soldier and his concerns and experiences with battle trauma.