Major Nick Sawyer is a parachute-trained Gunner Officer serving in the Royal Horse Artillery. He was commissioned into the Regular Army in 1994 and was decorated for gallantry during the Kosovo entry operation of 1999.

Nick is the grandson of the late Frank Sawyer, the famous Avon riverkeeper and author of Nymphs and the Trout and Keeper of the Stream.

He lives in Estonia, is married to Melody and they have three children.