The officer is thought to have served in the Afghan army and worked closely with British troops
personally stepped in to ensure that an Afghan officer he knew from Sandhurst was able to flee the country with his family.’s swift takeover and asked his equerry, Naval officer Rob Dixon, to contact personnel in the region.
All 10 of them, including a number of women and children, were eligible to leave but struggled to navigate the hectic and perilous route to the airport,The Duke’s actions were praised by former paratrooper Major Andrew Fox, who said the intervention was ‘fully in line with what we get taught in the Army in terms of values’.
He went on: ‘It’s an entirely reasonable thing to do. What none of us did was demand that anybody be on the first plane out. We simply made sure that they were registered in the system.’
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