Charity trek inspired by heroic Yorkshire soldier

By The Newsroom
Published 29th Dec 2017, 00:48 BST
Private Gregg Stone of 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, who wass killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2012Private Gregg Stone of 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, who wass killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2012
Private Gregg Stone of 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, who wass killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2012
THE MANAGING director of an East Leeds maintenance firm will tackle a gruelling 192-mile coast-to-coast trek in memory of a Yorkshire soldier killed during a heroic rescue mission in Afghanistan.

Private Gregg Stone, from Hull, was just 20 years old when we was shot dead in Helmand Province while attempting to recuse a police office who had been kidnapped by insurgents.

Former police officer Lee Garner, the managing director of Whinmoor firm Capability, never knew Pte Stone, who served with the 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, but was touched by what happened to him and wanted to do something to both recognise his sacrifice, and that being made on a daily basis by servicemen and women on active duty.

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