Lance Corporal James Ashworth is to be granted the Victoria Cross (VC) for an extraordinary act of heroism in Helmand Province last June.The 23-year-old soldier of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards was looked up to by his fellow soldiers who have described him in eulogies as ‘loved by everyone’.
He was serving with a reconnaissance platoon in the Nahr-e-Siraj district last summer, when his platoon became engaged in a battle with Taliban insurgents.
He is understood to have fought with extraordinary courage against all odds until he was killed by a grenade.
His acts, which involved deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire, saved his comrades’ lives.
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