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Danny Boy, BBC Two review - when law and war collide | reviews, news & interviews Danny Boy, BBC Two review - when law and war collide Danny Boy, BBC Two review - when law and war collide Iraq war drama is powerful but lop-sided by Adam SweetingThursday, 13 May 2021 Anthony Boyle as Brian Wood, with Toby Jones as Phil Shiner The issue of public inquiries into the conduct of the military is in the headlines again, with a current focus on Northern Ireland, but at the centre of screenwriter Robert Jones’s Danny Boy was the attempt to find British soldiers guilty of war crimes in Iraq. ....
BBC/Expectation TV/Robert Viglasky On 14 May 2004, 24-year-old Lance Corporal Brian Wood was leading a patrol in a Warrior armoured vehicle near Al-Amarah in southern Iraq, when he got a call for help. A nearby unit of Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders had come under attack near a checkpoint called Danny Boy and, with two men wounded, called for reinforcements. Wood and his fellow soldiers from the Princess Of Walesâ Royal Regiment rushed to help the Argylls, jumping out of their vehicle when they reached the site of the battle and charging the enemy under cover of fire from the Warriorâs 30mm cannon and chain gun. When the dust settled, almost 30 fighters from the Mahdi Army, an Iranian-backed Shiâite militia, were dead, with no British fatalities. That none of Woodâs men had been killed was almost astounding; they had crossed over 400 metres of âdead groundâ, wasteland crisscrossed by trenches and berms, in the first British bayonet charge since t ....