kajaki true story

The extraordinary heroism of seven wounded British soldiers has been captured in a new film, Kajaki: The True Story. Only one image, a photograph that his wife Dawn insists on displaying, of him collecting his George Medal for bravery, offers an insight. Honora Productions In the film 'Kajaki: The True Story', Paul Hartley was played by Mark Stanley.

“I was responsible for everybody medically, but I left the guys behind,” he recalls.

According to his citation for bravery, Cpl Wright “unhesitatingly led his men into the minefield” to rescue his fellow paratrooper and “at enormous personal risk” took command of the group. “This film will finally give recognition to the other guys.

If your legs go, don’t show it.’” A decorated veteran of 22 years’ service, he says he was “humbled” by his nephew’s courage.

While hardly a fun time at the movies, Kilo Two Bravo is a fine piece by first-time feature director Paul Katis. He recalls stopping at one point, remembering it was his son Ewin’s first birthday the following day, and then being hit by shrapnel as the fourth mine exploded and Fusilier Andy Barlow GM lost his leg.

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| “That’s the bit I always think about, that he was trying to protect me. Yet Cpl Hartley is dismissive, memories of his illustrious career scarred by what happened that day.

Cpl Wright’s parents, Bob and Jem, meanwhile, have dedicated their lives to raising money for ex-soldiers since the death of their only son.

For Cpl Hartley, who left the Army in 2008, being interviewed for the film has proved cathartic.

“Because I never got the chance to check everyone was OK, it had never ended for me.

| It will be an honour to go and see it.” Pukka Films raised a large slice of its budget through crowdfunding and small donations – largely from servicemen and women – and a portion of profits will be given to military charities including Help for Heroes, the Royal British Legion and Walking With The Wounded. All rights reserved. | Pictures of his three young sons cover the walls of his West Country home, offering little clue to his military past. “I looked down and I was bleeding. Kajaki The True Story: The utter hell faced by 3 Para JOHN Nichol, a former RAF Tornado Navigator shot down in the 1991 Gulf War, met survivors of … I think it always will be. He was wounded in the incident Eventually, we could hear a helicopter in the distance, a Chinook. BAFTA nominated ‘Kajaki: The True Story’ follows a small unit of British soldiers positioned on a ridge overlooking the Kajaki Dam in Helmand Province in 2006. “When they transferred us from the Black Hawk to the Chinook Medical Emergency Response Team, I looked over and Mark was next to me. Three of them lost legs, while Corporal Mark Wright, of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, suffered fatal wounds. “I have been in some pretty rough situations when what will be, will be. Frantically, the soldiers on the ground tried to shout warnings that the Chinook was about to land in a minefield.

You don’t make films about people like me.” But it was precisely this that captured Katis and Williams’s imagination. He recalls how he met up with Cpl Wright after the younger man came out of the notoriously violent Afghan town of Sangin. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else Seven men were seriously wounded at Kajaki.

The survivors describe the events of one fateful day We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal

| Rating: 3.5/4 I looked again and he was gone.” A thread of controversy is weaved through the Kajaki tragedy. I couldn’t see anything.

British Independent Film Awards: Instead, the task of checking it on behalf of the family fell to Cpl Wright’s uncle, Al Reid, who was in the same regiment. A company of British soldiers encounter a dried-out river bed and under every step, the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. | Rating: 4/5 Eight years on, the pain is still too raw for them even to read his citation for bravery.