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**Cabbage_man** · 02-02-2010, 19:12

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Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Originally Posted by Cabbage_man

And it was 35 insurgents they are reported to have dispatched to the afterlife using the trusty bayonet.

Absolute bollox. Anyone who has done an Afghan tour on the ground would tell you that.[/quote

This happened when I was there, not sure of how many they killed but according to someone who I spoke to who saw the scene aftermath it was a right fcuking mess.

Yeah, it seemed a bit to good to be true.

Any idea how many were taken out with the bayonet?

**abeaumont** · 02-02-2010, 19:25

Originally Posted by offog

Originally Posted by Cabbage_man

DefenseTech also points out the last known bayonet charge carried out in 2004. A group of 20 British soldiers near Basra fought off an ambush by over 100 Mahdi fighters in Iraq, but eventually ran low on ammo. They then resorted to a fierce bayonet charge that killed 20 militiamen and compelled the rest to flee or surrender, with only three British soldiers injured.

Fair bit about this on the internet. Involved the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

And it was 35 insurgents they are reported to have dispatched to the afterlife using the trusty bayonet.

Lets hope, if the US do decide to stop bayonet training, we have more sense and do not follow suit.

Link to a Sun story about the Basra charge: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ticle88661.ece

I think you will find it was the PWRR not teh A&SH. Pl Sgt got the CGC for the action.
The ambulance chaser is going through the courts now trying to prove they were civvies out for a stroll.

edited to correct rank and award

Indeed the PWRR Pl Sgt did get the CGC. One of the highlights of my career as a teacher was the day his daughter, a child in my tutor group, came to me to ask if she might be permitted a day off school to go to Buckingham Palace with him on the day of his investiture.

**johnboyzzz** · 02-02-2010, 19:55

Bayonet training, I don't see the point of it myself.

**Vasco** · 02-02-2010, 20:12

Lt James Adamson was recently awarded the MC for, among other things, killing a Talib with the bayonet.

**oldnotbold** · 02-02-2010, 20:19

...and indeed the then Major John Kiszely won his MC on Tumbledown for an action during which he shot two Argentinians and bayonetted a third

**thecoops** · 02-02-2010, 20:32

The pwrr plt sgt was my old rsm he got his gong for bayoneting at danny boy in iraq, my old plt sgt was on herric with the argyll and bolton wonderes said they got a few terry with thier bayonets in the wadis