SOLDIER by HARVEY ANDREWS.


This record is rising high in the charts at Amazon and i-Tunes amongst others.



It came out in the early 1970's, when the BBC banned it's being played. Many 1,000's of British soldiers bought it back then. Due to the current witch-hunt against Northern Ireland veterans, there are campaigns to get it to No. 1 in the various record charts . Many people are downloading it from these record sites.

It is based on the true story of Sgt Michael Willets, 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment, who placed his body onto an IRA bomb in Belfast to save civilians in 1971. Sgt Willets was awarded the George Cross for this act of selfless heroism. George Cross ; Willetts was killed in Springfield Road RUC station by the Provisional IRA. A man in his mid-twenties emerged from a car and threw a suitcase containing a blast bomb into the lobby of the station. Willetts thrust two children and two adults into a corner and stood above them as the 30 lbs of explosives detonated, seriously injuring him. Seven RUC officers, two British soldiers and eighteen civilians were injured in the attack. Willetts was fatally injured by a chunk of metal from a locker which had struck him in the back of the head. As he was being removed by ambulance, he and the injured officers were jeered by local youths who screamed obscenities at them. Willetts died after two hours on the operating table at Royal Victoria Hospital.[2]

 This record is harrowing.

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