VC calls at Armouries
Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC was in Leeds yesterday to help launch an exhibition to celebrate the contribution of ethnic minorities to achievements in the British Army.
The 'We Were There' exhibition, which is being held at the Royal Armouries from October 11 to 16, and then at Bradford College between October 18 and 22, looks at what men and women from ethnic minority communities have given to the country's defence
over the last 250
years.
L/Cpl Beharry was born in Grenada. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2005 after saving the lives of his colleagues twice in 2004 while under heavy rocket fire in Al-Amarah, Iraq. He has also served in Kosovo, and Northern Ireland.
Picture: Graham Lindley