SOLDIERS from the region will meet Prince Charles today to collect their campaign medals for service in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Lynx helicopter crews and support staff from 9 Regiment Army Air Corps, based at Dishforth Airfield, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, spent yesterday perparing for the ceremony.
Fifty airmen will be awarded Operation Telic campaign medals at the parade, at Clarence House, in London, today.
Some of them returned from Iraq only days ago.
Warrant officer Richard Twinn, 34, formerly of Thirsk, will be among the group travelling to London.
He said: “It’s quite an honour and we are quite proud that we are going to meet him.”
WO Twinn joined the Army 17 years ago straight from school.
He was in Afghanistan in 2005 and returned from a fivemonth tour of duty in Iraq earlier this month.
He spent his time as an aircraft engineer working on six Lynx helicopters used by the British forces.
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