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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Military Cross for the 'bomb magnet' UK soldier blown up 17 times

Military Cross for the 'bomb magnet' soldier blown up 17 times
A soldier who has been involved in 17 bomb attacks by insurgents has been awarded the Military Cross for helping co-ordinate the response to the most recent one - even as he lay wounded
Telegraph UK
By Jasper Copping
6:30AM GMT 23 Mar 2014

He is either the unluckiest man in the Army, or the luckiest. Warrant Officer Class 1 Patrick Hyde has been blown up 17 times by insurgents − but has escaped serious injury on each occasion.

The soldier, who has been nicknamed “bomb magnet”, has been awarded the Military Cross for his actions after the latest attack, when he helped to coordinate the evacuation of injured soldiers, as well as a senior Afghan general and his men, as he lay wounded on the ground.
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