Wounded medic Sally Clarke stayed to treat injured soldiers in Afghan ambush
Makes me proud, this:
‘An Army medic remained at the scene of an ambush in Afghanistan to treat seven injured comrades despite being wounded with shrapnel herself, it was revealed today.
Lance Corporal Sally Clarke, of 2 Rifles, ignored the shards embedded in her back after the Taleban attack and stayed to help her team.
Lance Corporal Clarke, 22, from Cheltenham, was on patrol south of Sangin in June when insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades over a wall as soldiers dealt with an anti-tank mine.
One soldier was hit on the back of his rucksack, the grenade bouncing off and landing in the middle of the patrol, who dived to take cover.
After two more explosions, Lance Corporal Clarke got up to find seven of her colleagues injured. The most serious casualty had extensive shrapnel wounds to the top of his legs and buttocks. She also had shrapnel in her shoulder and lower back. But she defied her own pain and set about treating the rest of her patrol single-handedly. ‘
What a soldier!
RTWT!