And then all I had was my mates ragging me.

saying you're trying to get out of the football um you know because you've been we just had a football competition you're trying to get out of that and and it was all joking and then i was there going i've just done the medic course and surely you've got to reassure people and probably whether it was a couple of hours stood there or lying down screaming having the mick taken out of me no morphine nothing on a side a side of the ranges Um, and then they managed to get me off in the back of this Land Rover, bouncing around my foot everywhere, got into, um, Sunny bridge.

They gave me some pain relief and then life just chilled out a little bit better.

Then I got into Abergavenny Neville hall and happened to be a real good surgeon there at the time.

And, um, he said, look, you've suffered a high velocity gunshot wound.

We are going to amputate your foot.

And if the bullets traveled, you're about to have, um, your leg taken off up to your knee.

And I couldn't