Paddy Ashdown (born 1941), formally Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, British politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
Personalities to own a DW medal are former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, double Olympic gold medallist rower James Cracknell and Rebecca Stephens, the first woman to climb Everest solo.
Ian Patrick was the Private Secretary to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina when Paddy Ashdown occupied the role, working with Edward Llewellyn (Conservative adviser).
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown highlighted the fact that their candidate, alone among the main parties, was local and had not been "chosen in London and parachuted in".
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As explained by Paddy Ashdown in a BBC Timewatch documentary, due to "a Whitehall cock-up of major proportions", de Baissac was preparing to take explosives on board German ships in the harbor of Bordeaux when he heard explosions from the partly successful Operation Frankton.