Ex-special forces hero who won two of the country’s top gallantry gongs told The Queen ‘we do it for you’
AN ex-Special Forces hero who won two of the country’s top gallantry gongs has revealed he told the Queen: “We don’t do it for money or medals, ma’am. We do it for you.”
Former Royal Marine Dom Troulan, 59, was responding after Her Majesty told him at a reception: “I believe you are the only person to have my Queen’s Gallantry Medal and my father’s George Cross.”
He is one of 23 living recipients of Victoria and George Crosses.
Seventeen are due to attend the State Funeral.
He earned his George Cross for storming a terrorist siege to rescue trapped civilians at a Kenya shopping mall in 2013.
He was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal in 1993.
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The Falklands and Iraq war veteran said: “People think you go to war because you are fighting for your government.
“The reality is you fight for the sovereign and the friends to your left and your right.”
He added: “It will be an incredible honour to be there in Westminster Abbey in celebration of her life.”
Ex-Royal Protection Officer Jim Beaton GC, who took a bullet for Princess Anne in 1974, said: “It was a privilege to work for Her Majesty.”
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Beaton, 79 — shot twice in a botched kidnap bid — said the Queen had thanked him personally for saving her daughter.
Australian SAS hero Mark Donaldson, 43, who won a VC in Afghanistan, said: “Lots of people talk about service in the forces.
“It is service above self and no one demonstrated that more than Her Majesty.”