"The doctors at Headley Court told me my soldiering days were over," says Colour Sergeant Thomas O'Donnell of the reconnaissance platoon of the Scots Guards. Thomas, from Pollok, was caught in enemy fire at Nad-e Ali in Helmand in 2010 while pointing out to his platoon commander the whereabouts of some freshly laid IEDs . A round smashed his femur, splitting his knee in two. After a year in rehab at Headley, suffering many complications and losing two inches off his left leg, CSGT O'Donnell's first walk unaided was down the aisle with his daughter Siobhan at her wedding. Now he's getting ready to go back.
Elayne Jude of Great North News Services joined 4 Mechanised Brigade as they completed their last exercise before deploying to Afghanistan. During it, Brigadier Bob Bruce summed up their mission, and their mood: Continuity, and confidence.
(Pictured : L Sgt Scott Small & Guardsman David Nelson(c) 17dragons Photography)
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