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Podcast: Freedom Pact | Joseph and Lewis
Episode: #193: Brian Wood MC - Former Colour Sergeant On The Most Defining Battle Of His Career
Description: "The odds were stacked against us, but they were just odds..."
Brian Wood MC, former Colour Sergeant, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment. Brian Wood was awarded the Military Cross, one of Britain’s highest awards for gallantry in combat, by Her Majesty The Queen II, following his courageous leadership under enemy fire in Iraq. In the heat of a lethal close quarters battle, fighting outnumbered, he seized the initiative, taking a split-second decision to lead his men into the teeth of enemy fire in the first bayonet charge by British soldiers in 25 years. Leading from the front, he put his...