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What Happened? At approximately 10pm on 22nd March 2007, Lance Corporal Craig "Freddie" Lundberg and his colleagues were involved in a battle with insurgents in Basra, Iraq. They had been tasked with an operation to arrest certain known insurgent terrorist characters who were causing major security concerns to the local community. Following the arrest of his target, Craig's neighbouring section came under fire from housing opposite whilst they were trying to exact their arrest. In order to offer them protection, Craig took his section on to the roof of the building in an attempt to draw the fire from the other section and subdue the enemy. During this extremely intense fire fight, whilst in the cover of a small boundary wall and returning fire, Craig was targeted by a rocket propelled grenade which blew away the wall he was behind. This was immediately followed by another which hit him in the upper left chest of his body armour.
The resulting impact and explosion inflicted serious "open" damage to Craig's left arm , the loss of his left eye and serious burns and shrapnel wounds to the face. His right eye was also seriously damaged by the explosion, leaving him blind. |
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