An Afghan War hero who took on the enemy with a broken back and shrapnel lodged in his face has been honoured.
Corporal Josh Griffiths was eating in a cookhouse at Camp Folad, Helmand Province when a pick-up truck carrying a half-a-ton of explosives smashed into the perimeter wall and detonated. Despite being injured in the blast, the soldier dragged himself off the ground and grabbed a machine gun to engage a party of insurgents who had burst through the 130ft gap created by the explosion.
The enemy aimed rocket-propelled grenades at him and showered him with automatic fire during the prolonged close-quarters firefight in 2013. At one stage, Cpl Griffiths was just 80ft from the insurgents and had they got past him 15 wounded comrades would have been at their mercy.
