Edward Dyson was born in India during the time in which his father, a World War I veteran of the Royal Field Artillery, was a civil servant in the Colonial Indian Forest Service. He later followed in his father’s footsteps, serving in the Royal Artillery Regiment during World War II. He was an avid sailor and a member of the 1952 Olympic crew of Sabre, competing in the Dragon class three person keelboat event alongside Lieutenant-Colonel Tony Somers and Major John Barrington-Ward, both also Royal Artillery servicemen. Dyson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1958 New Year Honours and remained in active service until his retirement in 1966, having reached the rank of Major. He later retired to Aldbourne, Wiltshire and died at the age of 100.
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