Colonel Edward Charles Loden MC (9 July 1940 – 7 September 2013) was a British Army officer.He was awarded the Military Cross as a captain for his actions during the Aden Emergency in June 1967.Loden, at the time a Major, was a commander during Bloody Sunday on 30 January 1972; he was later exonerated by the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.Loden was shot dead on 7 September 2013 by armed robbers in Nairobi, Kenya, while he was visiting.