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Anthony Boyle as Brian Wood in the forthcoming BBC drama Danny Boy Credit: BBC On May 14 2004, just outside of the Iraqi town of Amarah, a patrol of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was ambushed by a Shi’a militia group known as the Mahdi Army. The Brits called for support, which arrived in the form of members of the 1st Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Regiment. In what became known as The Battle of Danny Boy – named after a nearby checkpoint – the British soldiers saw some of...

Clara Gaspar Updated: May 4 2021, 6:12 ET DANNY Boy is the BBCs new feature length drama which tells the story of a heros ordeal after being wrongly accused of war crimes. The harrowing story recounts the events of one of Britains biggest-ever public inquiry. 4 Is BBC Twos Danny Boy based on a true story? Yes! Danny Boy tells the true story of Brian Wood, a solider falsely accused of murder after risking his life in Iraq. The Former Colour Sergeant is a real-life solider who served in one of ...

Where is Brian Wood now? Clara Gaspar Updated: 15:53 ET, May 12 2021 FORMER Colour Sergeant Brian Wood has been through more than his fair share of ordeals - on and off the battlefield. After being honoured for his service in 2004, Brian went through hell when he was falsely accused of committing war crimes. His story is being retold in new BBC drama Danny Boy. 3 Who is Brian Wood? Brian Wood is a soldier falsely accused of murder after risking his life in Iraq. At the age of 23, he served ...

HEROS ORDEAL I’d rather face enemy fire again than relive trial that branded me a war criminal, says Iraq hero Brian Wood Rod McPhee Updated: 8:31 ET, May 4 2021 BRIAN WOOD didn’t hesi­tate to charge into a hail of bullets and grenades to save his Army comrades in the Iraqi desert — yet for doing so, he was branded a war criminal. During a terrifying three hours, the bloody Battle of Danny Boy saw the 23-year-old Lance Corporal and his men overcome an enemy that had them outgunned and o...

Campbeltown Courier Updated: 30/04/21, 11:31 am In 1996: Major Hamish Clark presented George McIntyre, centre, with a quaich for his composition of a march to commemorate the Battle of Longstop Hill, photographed with Major Duncan McMillan, who won the Military Medal at the battle. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...

by Paul OKeeffe (Bodley Head £25, 432 pp)  On a bleak moor near the village of Culloden, just to the east of Inverness in the wild Highlands of Scotland, the final pitched battle to be fought on British soil began just after 1pm on April 16, 1746. It was all over in 40 minutes, less time than half a football match, with mangled, stricken bodies strewn across the mud. If you are looking for the over-romanticised Scotland of whisky and oatcakes, aristocratic mistresses, flights across the misty...

Rory MacPherson, ITN diplomatic correspondent and newsreader in the 1970s – obituary He cut an authoritative figure on screen, having come from a career as a diplomat that included service during the Cuban missile crisis Rory MacPherson Rory MacPherson, who has died aged 85, was diplomatic correspondent and a newscaster for ITN during its heyday in the 1970s. Before the arrival of Anna Ford in 1978, Richard Ingrams lamented in The Spectator: “Like the member of some agreeable old club which...

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery meticulously planned the 21st Army Group crossing of the mighty Rhine. Heres What You Need to Know: Watching the offensive go forward, Churchill repeated to Eisenhower, “My dear general, the German is whipped. We have got him. He is all through.” “I am busy getting ready for the next battle,” Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery wrote his son David in early March 1945. This was just weeks before the start of Operation Plunder, which involved the a...

British Army veteran accused of police stab threats while armed with knife Fraser Rae is alleged to have lost the plot at his home at the weekend. Fraser Rae appeared in court accused of threatening to stab police officers (Image: PA) Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you...