A soldier who led a charge against Taliban insurgents across open ground in Afghanistan is among some 118 personnel whose names figured in the latest military honours on Friday.
Two RAF members and a female Army medic have also been included in the latest Operational Honours list.
Captain Michael Dobbin from the Grenadier Guards is awarded the Military Cross for examples of bravery which included a 200m charge at Taliban militants in Nahr-e-Saraj, Helmand Province last summer.
The 28-year-old fought the insurgents at close quarters and forced them out of a compound despite being injured in his right arm by a grenade shrapnel.
“In combat, your brain is going at a million miles an hour and you are trying to predict what the enemy will do as well as assess the position of your soldiers so it is offensive and defensive,” he said.
“The platoon’s performance was exceptional… Whenever I put that medal on, I will absolutely think of every man who was on the platoon those days.”
On a separate occasion, Dobbin also led the patrol on which Lance-Corporal James Ashworth, the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since 2006, died protecting his colleagues from a grenade blast.
In other honours, Sergeant Roy Geddes, 43, also received the Military Cross after helping to repulse a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in September last year.
And Army medic Lance Corporal Abbie Martin, 20, receives the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service.
Martin was on her first patrol in Afghanistan, as a private when she treated a dying colleague in the midst of enemy fire.
She later went on to treat multiple casualties after a grenade blast, saving the lives of all the wounded.
Soldiers honoured for Afghanistan bravery
