My friend Nigel Wylde,who has died of cancer aged 69, was a distinguished career army officer, or whose experiences eventually brought him into conflict with his employers.
Nigel was born in Rawalpindi a few months before the partition of India,to Norman Wylde, a military officer, and his wife,Mary (nee Higson). He had a peripatetic childhood and was educated at the Duke of York’s Royal Military school from the age of nine, followed by the Royal Military Academy, and Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as an ammunition technical officer,he commanded the Belfast 321EOD unit in 1974 and was responsible for defusing more than 90 devices in three months, including a 350lb car bomb, and for which he was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal. However,he raised concerns approximately possible army involvement in a murder in County Armagh and resigned his post.
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Source: theguardian.com