Lieutenant General Sir John Airth Mace, KBE, CB (born 29 June 1932) is a retired senior commander of the New Zealand Army.
[2] He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australia, in 1950 as an officer cadet sponsored by the New Zealand government.
[3] He was attached to a National Service battalion for two weeks of training in his final year at the college and,[4] on graduation, was commissioned into the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment in December 1953.
[1] Mace served with the New Zealand Special Air Service Squadron in the Malayan Emergency from 1955 to 1957, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches.
[8] Mace retired from the New Zealand Army in 1991, having been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours.