Lance Sergeant Daniel Collins, from 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, has survived a bullet in the back during a recent operation in Afghanistan, thanks to the body armour he was wearing.
LSgt Collins, who is serving on operations in southern Helmand, was on a Company level operation to clear insurgents from a village when he was hit by the enemy bullet
The 26-year-old, Fire Support Group (FSG) Section Commander, from Cardigan, West Wales, described the lead up to the incident: “We were coming under sporadic fire from insurgents to our rear, as our Section moved back to the Company RV, at the end of the day’s clearance operation.
“I knelt down in an irrigation ditch in partial cover, as the …