Woodham was commissioned into the
Royal Anglian Regiment on 9 August 1986. He was awarded the
Military Cross (MC) for services in Iraq in 2005. He was deployed to
Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2008 as
commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment He went on to be chief of staff of
1st (United Kingdom) Division in January 2011 and commander of
7th Armoured Brigade in January 2013 and was deployed as commander of
Task Force Helmand in October 2013. After that he became Head of Training and Education for the Army in July 2015, and Director of Operational Capability at the
Ministry of Defence in August 2017. Woodham was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the
2011 Birthday Honours, and advanced to
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the
2015 Special Honours. ==References==