The widow of a top bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan spoke of her pride tonight after he was tipped for a rare posthumous gallantry award. Staff Sergeant Olaf 'Oz' Schmid is a 'racing certainty' for a George Cross or Distinguished Service ...

A bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan revealed the horrors of his final months in a series of letters to his wife. Staff Sergeant Olaf 'Oz' Schmid described staying alive as a 'lottery' and wrote of the horrific injuries sustained by ...

We armchair warriors consider ourselves well-versed in the sad rituals of repatriation. Flag-draped coffins leaving the belly of a military aircraft, the convoy of hearses through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett, relatives with flowers and ...