Lee Fry - Ex A Coy 1RWF

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This story may be of interest to A Company Group Gorazde 95.


http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/01/01/shell-shocked-ex-soldier-on-the-firing-line-91466-20301596/

[beefy22]

I remember him we came from the same area, i am not to sure if he tried to go AWOL in Bosnia. (lol)

[led9750]

i know the housing this guy is in , but i cant remember him . we often hear the ranges from my house but the only flashback i get is CSM Mad Irv shouting TARGETS UP , ''are you awake Blything you fat *******''
Always had a way with words , Maybe Irvine is working at castlemartin LOL

cheers all
led

[stu reed]

Yep i remember this guy,

I was Mortors attached to A coy in Bosnia. I remeber Fry packed his bags and went for a "walk"!!! got picked up down the road. He also wouldnt go on stag, sat in the guard room, placed a blanket over his head and threatend to shoot him self.....the only reply he got was from one of the lads ..... "Dont make a mess...Ive just cleand that F**king floor"


Stu "ollie" Reed

currently living the life in Az Zubayr!

[mikedonnelly]

I remember Mr Fry very well, he had problems soon after arriving so was kept in Camp untill we could get him out on a convoy. After he packet his bags and walked out through B Coy gate he was picked up by a muslim patrol heading out of town towards no-mans land.

He was well out of there before the shelling started, i think Jimmy Timmins was his PL Sgt so that would have contributed to his troubles!!!!!

[Barry69]

Don't know the guy personally, but like Mike says the shelling had not yet started when he left, up to the May we still played volleyball and run through the town over the bridges and back, so must be other issues here?

Guess the press have their dates wrong 1993 bit early,

[Beano Hind]

Maybe the A Coy CSM at the time drove him that way playing to much of Phil Collins pre deployment, I know it drove me mad on one extra long convoy Mike? and I like Phil Collins. LOL

[jimmy timmons]

No mike not one of mine lol Try Sox lol

[sox3044]

Cant remeber if he was mine or Rabs busy tour and all that , but remember him being a night mare, i think he may have been in the other half of the Platoon with the Pl comd and the mortar lads Kinny and Chink. yes can vouch with Mike that he was on walk about and he was sent out on first available convoy. Im sure he was placed in the guard room for his own protection so the lads on stag could keep an eye on him. He was a blagger, but seems to me hes one of those blokes that always has problems, well at least he got a council house with a roof over his head, thats more than what the council would give me and its more than a lot of people get. Yes and im sure he was from the Pyle area.

[sox3044]

Maybe the A Coy CSM at the time drove him that way playing to much of Phil Collins pre deployment, I know it drove me mad on one extra long convoy Mike? and I like Phil Collins. LOL

Beano, it has to be better than listening to freddy mercury m8, 2 years of that playing in the mess bar is enough to drive any 1 mad

[chris dundon]

yeah i remember him a proper mincer who was in my platoon, sox Pl Sgt, bruce payne Pl Comd. bluffed his way out of gzd and never got to do a days soldiering out there, he was in nige 99s section though so he may have a slight case for mental torture problems there

[dutchman]

i wasnt in gorazde but lanwern steel works kept me up a few times any chance of my mortgage being paid

[John Turner]

You've gorra laugh though - I did....


"A FORMER soldier who suffered post-traumatic stress after serving in war-torn Bosnia has been given a council house on the edge of one of Britain’s busiest tank firing ranges."

You have to wonder how the conversation went at the County Council housing office.

"Hey, Fred, we've got this ex squaddie with PTSD needing housing"

"What caused the PTSD"?

"Bombing, shelling .... big bangs and stuff ..... where d'ya reckon we should house him"?


"Hmmmm, let me see ......."