Ian Arthur Naunton Cook

Colonel Ian Arthur Naunton Cook OBE (1934–1994) was Commander of the British Police Mobile Unit in the New Hebrides between 1978 and 1979 and Commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Forces from Vanuatu’s independence in 1980 until 1984.[1][2][3][4] Cook was involved in quelling the Santo Rebellion,[5][6] and under his command the Vanuatu Mobile Force became ‘a disciplined and efficient paramilitary unit, displaying fine bearing on military occasions’.[1][2][3] He was later an Overseas Security Adviser on diplomatic missions at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[1]

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