Pte Johnson Beharry
Awarded the Victoria Cross in 2005
Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school.
At 13, Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In 1999 he scraped together the airfare for England and joined the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment. He served six months in Kosovo, three months in Northern Ireland and then went to Iraq. READ ON IN ISSUE 1
