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Derek Wilford was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army Parachute Regiment. He commanded the Unit responsible for the deaths of 14 innocent civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972. The event became known as '[[Bloody Sunday - 1972|Bloody Sunday]]' | Derek Wilford was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army Parachute Regiment. He commanded the Unit responsible for the deaths of 14 innocent civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972. The event became known as '[[Bloody Sunday - 1972|Bloody Sunday]]' | ||
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| + | Journalist and Playwright Richard Norton Taylor, in an interview with Socialist Review <ref>[http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9338 January 2005 interview with Playwright Richard Norton Taylor]</ref> about his dramatisation of the events of Bloody Sunday described Derek Wilford thus: | ||
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| + | ''The cavalry officer, Colonel Derek Wilford, head of the Paras' first battalion, was not only very right wing but deeply old fashioned. He'd been fighting colonial wars - he'd been in Aden not so many years before. And they treated these people on the Bogside as if they were 'natives' in East Africa. There's no evidence of any great conspiracy at Westminster, just an ignorance and an eye off the ball.'' | ||
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| + | ==See Also== | ||
| + | *[[Bloody Sunday - 1972]] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | ==External Links== | ||
| + | *[http://fenian32.livejournal.com/5138837.html Key soldiers involved in the events of Bloody Sunday] | ||
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[[Category:Northern Ireland]] | [[Category:Northern Ireland]] | ||
[[Category:British Army]] | [[Category:British Army]] | ||
Revision as of 09:30, 16 June 2010
Derek Wilford was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army Parachute Regiment. He commanded the Unit responsible for the deaths of 14 innocent civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972. The event became known as 'Bloody Sunday'
Journalist and Playwright Richard Norton Taylor, in an interview with Socialist Review [1] about his dramatisation of the events of Bloody Sunday described Derek Wilford thus:
The cavalry officer, Colonel Derek Wilford, head of the Paras' first battalion, was not only very right wing but deeply old fashioned. He'd been fighting colonial wars - he'd been in Aden not so many years before. And they treated these people on the Bogside as if they were 'natives' in East Africa. There's no evidence of any great conspiracy at Westminster, just an ignorance and an eye off the ball.
