Lieutenant General Sir John Peter Barry Condliffe Watts, KBE, CB, MC (27 August 1930 – 10 December 2003) was a British Army officer who became Chief of Defence Staff for the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces.
[1] He served with 22 Special Air Service Regiment and, as commander of B Squadron, took part in counter-terrorism operations in Borneo in 1958 and then, as commander of D Squadron, in the regiment's successful assault on Jebel Akhdar in Oman in January 1959.
[1] The dissidents there were largely captured or dispersed and for his achievement in scaling the mountain he was awarded the Military Cross.
[1] Watts was appointed commanding officer of 22 Special Air Service Regiment in 1970, an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley, in 1972 and Director SAS in 1975.
[3] Watts was married to Mary Flynn; they had four sons and three daughters before the marriage was dissolved in 1986.