Within about two weeks of Bloody Sunday in Derry (30th January 1972), Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Wilford, commander of the 1st Battalion of Britain’s Parachute Regiment, was awarded by his Sovereign with an Order of Chivalry.
Some 38 years later Lord Saville found that Wilford had disobeyed orders and Prime Minister David Cameron pronounced the fatal victims of the Parartoopers’ rifle marksmanship innocent of rioting or violence.
Wilford died recently aged 90 and the Sovereign who awarded him for gallantry lived even longer.
Wilford considered himself the chief victim of the events of Bloody Sunday .He became a self-pitying whinger.
He considered Derry Catholics “closet Republicans” and deserving of execution by his men.
The London Times had an obituary of Wilford. A very balanced one. Quite an in depth account of how his battalion deployed that day.
Balance doesn’t come into it. Wilford was a racist monster, a mass murderer and a war criminal. Hell roast him