Kim Hughes was a driver in the Army who’d already quit once and was feeling disheartened again.
But a moment watching a colleague prepare for a potentially deadly duty in Northern Ireland finally awakened his ambition.
He tells James Hirst how that new found drive, a lot of classroom graft, and a childhood fascination with fireworks led to a George Cross for selfless bravery while disarming more than 100 Taliban bombs in Afghanistan.
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