Lance Corporal Andrew Wardle MC
Posted on 09/25/2010 9:21:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A soldier has been awarded the Military Cross after sprinting 300ft under enemy fire to save a critically wounded boy from the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Lance Corporal Andrew Wardle, 22, sprang into action after the five-year-old wandered into the middle of a vicious firefight. He saw the boy running towards him just as a Taliban bullet tore into the lad’s lower back and knocked him into a crumpled heap.
L/Cpl Wardle, from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, leapt from his position and raced to scoop up the boy, ignoring bullets slamming into the ground at his feet.
The Military Cross (MC) is the third highest medal awarded for gallantry in the face of the enemy on land, surpassed only by the George Cross and Victoria Cross.
L/Cpl Wardle, of 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards), said: ‘We were assaulting a Taliban firing position when another group of insurgents opened up on us from our right.
‘I saw a boy about 150ft away right in the middle of the enemy fire. He was heading towards us for safety. As soon as the Taliban realised he was coming our way they started firing at him. They wanted to kill him rather than let him fall into our hands.
‘I just ran out and grabbed him and ran back with him. He was crying for his “Mama” and his father. We cut open the back of his shirt and put field dressing bandages on the wounds.’
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Lance Corporal Andrew Wardle, a yank retired Army Major salutes you.
good man.
What a story and what a hero. I hope the little fellow made it through his inury and grows up to love and appreciate freedom.
...no greater love.
Well done, Soldier.
Bless you.
I hope they killed the dirtbag that shot at a 5 year old kid. I hope he ran into the afterlife unzipping his pants as fast as he could only to see that Mohammed was so, so wrong.
Where is his wheelbarrow? You know, the one he has to use to carry his balls around in.
God bless him and the kid.
bttt
What a world of difference there is between ‘us’ and ‘them’!
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