Military cross awarded to soldier wrongly accused of war crimes sells for £55,000
The gallantry medal awarded to a heroic army soldier who was wrongly accused of war crimes during the battle of Danny Boy in the Iraq War has sold for £55,000. Corporal Mark Byles received the Military Cross for taking an enemy trench during a life-or-death full frontal assault in which he killed several insurgents. He later had to deny claims by the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner that he and his colleagues tortured and murdered prisoners. Their plight has recently been told in the new BBC drama 'Danny Boy', in which Shiner is played by Toby Jones. In 2013, Corporal Byles gave evidence at the ...
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