Derek Wilford

Colonel Derek Wilford OBE (16 February 1933 – 24 November 2023) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment.

In Derry, Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday he was in command when soldiers within his battalion shot 26 unarmed civilian protesters, killing 13 of them. At the time he was a lieutenant colonel. The following year he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II, widely seen as a reward for his part in Bloody Sunday. The Saville Inquiry into the incident found that he had ignored orders, without justification, and in doing so had "set in train" the shootings.