British Army
Andy served in the British Army from 2002- 2009. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in January of 2002 and ‘Passed Out’ in December in the Sovereign’s Platoon, the top platoon of his intake. He commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery the regiment of his Great Grandfather, Osmund Townley Frith, who served in both World War 1 and World War 2 and retired with the rank of Major-General.
Andy completed four operational tours during his military career, his first tour coming eight working days out of training when he deployed to Iraq as part of Operation TELIC 2 in the summer of 2003, the first peace keeping mission after Gulf War 2. He deployed to Cyprus as a UN peacekeeping a year later as part of Operation TOSCA following which he attended the Defence School of Languages (DSL) Beaconsfield in 2005 learning Farsi, deploying in the summer of 2006 to Afghanistan as part of Operation HERRICK 4. He returned to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008 as part of an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT). Andy left the British Army in 2009.