Editing Tim Spicer (section)

{{Short description|British military officer and executive}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox military person
| name          = Tim Spicer
| birth_name    = Timothy Simon Spicer
| birth_date    = {{Birth year and age|1952}}
| birth_place   = [[Aldershot]], England
| death_place   = 
| image         = 
| caption       = 
| serviceyears  = 1970<ref name="resist">{{cite web|year=2007|url=http://www.resist.org.uk/reports/archive/misc/spicer.php|title = Lt Col Tim Spicer|publisher=pub|accessdate=14 August 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071008015710/http://www.resist.org.uk/reports/archive/misc/spicer.php|archivedate=8 October 2007}}</ref> – 1994<ref name="aegisworld">{{cite web|year=2007 |url=http://www.aegisworld.com/tim-spicer.html |title=Tim Spicer OBE – Chief Executive Officer of Aegis Defence Services Ltd |publisher=Aegis World |accessdate=14 August 2007 |last=Aegis Defence Services |author-link=Aegis Defence Services |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703025814/http://www.aegisworld.com/tim-spicer.html |archivedate=3 July 2007}}</ref>
| rank          = [[Lieutenant-Colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
| branch        = [[British Armed Forces]]
| commands      = 
| unit          = [[Scots Guards]]
| battles       = <BR>While serving in the [[Scots Guards|UK's Scots Guard]]:
----[[Falklands War]]<BR>[[1991 Gulf War]]<BR>[[Yugoslav wars|UN force in Bosnia]]<BR><BR>Working for [[private military company|Private Military Companies]]:
----[[Sandline affair|Bougainville Uprising]]<BR>[[Sierra Leone Civil War]]<BR>[[Iraq War]]<ref name="vanityfair">{{cite magazine |date= 1 March 2007|url = http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/04/spicer200704?printable=true&currentPage=all|title = US: Iraq's Mercenary King|magazine=Vanity Fair | accessdate =14 August 2007 | last=Robert Baer}}</ref><BR><BR>
| awards        = [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)]]<ref name="aegisworld"/> <br/>[[General Service Medal (1962)|General Service Medal]] <br/>[[South Atlantic Medal]]
| laterwork     = Founder of the private military corporation [[Sandline International]] and former CEO of [[Aegis Defence Services]]. 
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'''Timothy Simon Spicer''', {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|OBE]]}} (born 1952) is a former [[British Army]] officer, and former [[chief executive officer|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|Sandline Affair]]'' (2000), ''A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spicer |first=Tim |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447683/a-dangerous-enterprise-by-spicer-tim/9781999589134 |title=A Dangerous Enterprise |date=2021-09-07 |language=en}}</ref> and ''A Suspicion of Spies: Risk, Secrets and Shadows - the Biography of [[Wilfred Dunderdale|Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale]]'' was published on 12 September 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-12 |title=Tim Spicer |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/208198/tim-spicer |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=www.penguin.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Andrew |first=Christopher |date=2024-09-14 |title=Meet 'Biffy' – MI6 officer, bold seducer and 007 inspiration |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-suspicion-spies-tim-spicer-biffy-dunderdale/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>