- Paddy Blagden
Brigadier-General Patrick Martin Blagden CBE is a retired
British Army officer, and theUnited Nations foremost expert on de-mining.Blagden was commissioned into the
Royal Engineers from Sandhurst in 1955. He was promotedLieutenant in 1957,Captain in 1961,Major in 1967,Lieutenant-Colonel in 1975, andColonel in 1980. He retired in 1988.
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