Tim Spicer | |
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| Birth name | Timothy Simon Spicer |
| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Aldershot, England |
| Service | British Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1970[1] – 1994[2] |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| Unit | Scots Guards |
| Battles / wars | While serving in the UK's Scots Guard: Falklands War 1991 Gulf War UN force in Bosnia Working for Private Military Companies: Bougainville Uprising Sierra Leone Civil War Iraq War[3] |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[2] General Service Medal South Atlantic Medal |
| Other work | Founder of the private military corporation Sandline International and former CEO of Aegis Defence Services. Author. |
Timothy Simon Spicer, OBE (born 1952) is a former British Army officer, and former CEO of the private security company Aegis Defence Services. He served in the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland. He founded Sandline International, a private military company which closed in April 2004. He is the author of three books: An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair (2000), A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea (2021)[4] and A Suspicion of Spies: Risk, Secrets and Shadows - the Biography of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale will be published on 12 September 2024.[5]