Wil Wright

Supervising Armourer & Military Advisor/Historian. From my early teens I had a strong interest in military history and also collected WW1 & 2 deactivated weaponry. My Father and Grandfather were both ex-infantrymen/combat veterans and steered me into enlisting in the British Army as an Apprentice Armourer in 1991 at the age of 16. I completed my weapons training in 1994 and was posted to the Royal Armoured Corps in Germany, where I maintained and instructed on a host of small arms and machine guns within two tank regiments. In 1999 I opted to follow in my fathers footsteps and post physical selection & subsequent parachute training I joined the Airborne Forces (16 Air Assault Brigade), where I continued to operate as a Senior/Class 1 Armourer for a number of years. Within this time I took part in various operational deployments, from the 2000 Op Palliser (Sierra Leone civil war intervention) to 2003 Op Telic (initial Iraq Invasion), where I supported war fighting Infantry Battalions