Hail! Pvt. Beharry a Hero in every sense of the word.

Private awarded Victoria Cross
March 18, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
News.com.au
THE Commonwealth's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, has been awarded for the first time in 23 years, to a British soldier who saved the lives of 30 comrades in Iraq.
Private Johnson Beharry, 25, is the first living soldier to receive the medal since 1969, when two Australians were given the award for bravery in Vietnam, the Guardian newspaper said.
Pvt Beharry, who was born in Grenada and whose parents still live on the Carribbean island, earned the Victoria Cross for two separate acts of bravery under fire in the town of al-Amarah, north of the southern Iraqi city of Basra last year.
In the first incident on May 1, an armoured vehicle that Pvt Beharry had been driving at the head of a six-vehicle convoy was hit by rocket propelled grenade fire while on a mission to rescue a foot patrol that was in trouble.
"As a result of this ferocious initial volley of fire, both the platoon commander and the vehicle's gunner were incapacitated by concussion and other wounds, and a number of soldiers in the rear of the vehicle were also wounded," the official citation said.
Unable to tell whether his commander was alive, Pvt Beharry tried to drive his Warrior vehicle forward but was hit again by rocket propelled grenade fire.
Realising the only way to save the lives of the men onboard and those in the vehicles behind was to keep going despite the incoming fire, the young soldier pushed forward through the ambush.
"By doing this he was able to lead the remaining five Warriors behind him towards safety," the citation said.
His vehicle in flames, Pvt Beharry then rescued his wounded commander, the citation added.
A few weeks later on June 11, Pvt Beharry was leading another convoy, which was ambushed and a grenade detonated 15cm from his head.
"With the blood from his head injury obscuring his vision, Pvt Beharry managed to continue to control his vehicle and forcefully reversed the Warrior out of the ambush," the citation said.
The soldier, in the 1st Batallion, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, collapsed unconscious and was given a 50:50 chance of survival.
Pvt Beharry, married to Lynthia, 23, is one of just 14 living recipients of the Victoria Cross, The Times reported.
Only 1355 Victoria Crosses have been awarded, most of them posthumously.