Corporal Paul Biddle MBE

Paul Biddle MBE, Joined the Army in 1971 and transferred to the Reserve in 1977, initially joining 562 Independent Parachute Squadron RCT and on disbandment 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, serving in the Intelligence cell and on Training Wing.

He attended the International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School and the School of Military Intelligence at Ashford. His parachuting career ended on a UKSF exercise in Denmark when his parachute failed to deploy correctly.

He later joined the Home Office Prison Service, awarded the MBE in 2002, and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Foreign Office, awarded the Iraqi reconstruction medal and Civilian service medal for Afghanistan, retiring in 2008, he became a deployable civilian expert with the UK Foreign Office, awarded the UN special service medal with further deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, and Ukraine. Retiring again in 2020.