Death of A Soldier: A Mother’s Story Margaret Evison

Abstract

Biteback Publishing 2012 HB, 300pp, £16.99, 9781849544498 On 9 May 2009, a small platoon of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, on patrol in the poppy fields of Helmand province, Afghanistan, was ambushed by Taliban fighters. The platoon commander, Lt Mark Evison, had just written in his journal ‘There is a definite lack of steer from above as to how to play this one. I am yet to be given a definite mission and clarity as to my role out here’. In the firefight that followed, hampered by inefficient radio communications, Lt Evison broke cover to …