British Army

Andy served in the British Army from 2002- 2009. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in January of 2002 and ‘Passed Out’ in December of that year in the Sovereign’s Platoon, the top platoon of his intake. He commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery the regiment of his great grandfather, Osmund Townley Frith, who served in both World War 1 and World War 2 and retired with the rank of Major-General.

Andy completed four operational tours during his military career, his first tour coming just days out of training when he deployed to Iraq as part of Operation TELIC 2 in the summer of 2003, the first peace keeping mission after Gulf War 2. A year later he deployed to Cyprus as a UN peacekeeper as part of Operation TOSCA. He then attended the Defence School of Languages (DSL) Beaconsfield in 2005 learning Farsi, deploying in the summer of 2006 to Afghanistan as part of Operation HERRICK 4. He returned to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008 in the role of an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) in Operation HERRICK 8. Andy left the British Army in 2009.

A helicopter in the air and shadow on there perched ground below with a dust storm in the background

Importance of weapon safety and parallels with photography

Low angle of British Army soldier with sky behind him with hand on the butt of a GPMG

British Army vehicle patrol top cover at sunset in the desert

Grand archway in the middle of a desert with man sitting in the shade next to his bicycle

Five construction workers sit on their haunches during a break on a building site

Side angle of front end of CH-47 Chinook with rotor blades rotating and minigun protruding out of the side

Soldier shielding himself from dust kicked up from a helicopter taking off, with Humvee in the background

Black and white image of adult fanning an elderly man lying in hospital bed with a drip attached

Helicopter door gunner looks at the landing pad with airman n background waiting to give approval for take off

Black and white image of rear door gunner looking out the back of the tail or a helicopter as it flies over fields

Afghan National Army soldiers walking past a shop on a dusty street

Black and white image of two rows of boys in white judo outfits stand opposite each other in a school playground

Rear end of an aircraft fuselage of a commercial plane on an airfield with a man standing underneath, in the shade, to escape from the sun

Aircrew sitting and looking out the back of the tail of a CH47 Chinook as it flies over the desert

Boy standing in front of a dust covered tent full of women and children

Silhouette of four men wearing helmets standing in doorway waiting to exit a building

Landscape of small poor rural village surrounded by scorched earth in the summer

Tribal elders sit in mud hut surrounded by kids as a woman in a burqa walks past

Door gunner looking out the side of a helicopter at rocky escarpment below

British Army vehicle patrol stops in the middle of the desert in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

British Army vehicle patrol crossing a stream during a rural patrol

British Army vehicle during a vehicle patrol stops on an incline outside a village

Landscape of small poor rural village surrounded by mixed green and scorched earth in the summer

Black and white image of three woman in burqas walking down a busy street with bus in the background

Driver and commander of a British Army vehicle during a break in the desert in Helmand province

Young boy holding promotional leaflet look gin at soldier talk to a street stall owner in front of him with three young girls in the background

Black and white image of soldier standing next to a Humvee with top cover on a dirt track running along the middle of a valley with hills and behind

Black and white image of soldiers standing around a Humvee on a dirt track running along the middle of a valley with hills above and behind

Black and white image of four children sitting by the edge of a field in Helmand, Afghanistan

Farmer standing in the middle of a poppy field with mud structures behind him

Fall of Kabul Black and white landscape image of airstrip at dawn

Two young girls lying on a mat practising judo

Military medic with surgical gloves and forearm tattoo showing stands in front of injured topless male patient with head bandaged blowing his nose

Black and white image of young girls in burqas leaving a city school

Girl walking past an open gate watching two boys play inside

Young girl in green burqa carrying a sack over her shoulder walking down a busy city road

Four young girls wearing different colour outfits, three barefoot, standing on a dirt street corner

Black and white image of medics securing a stretcher with patient to the floor of a military cargo plane while nearby a person in a seat has his head in his hands

British Army vehicle patrol driving down village road with stalls on both sides

Landscape of young boy sitting on low stone bridge with green fields and mountains in the background

Blind man sitting on his haunches while a young boy stands next to him

Landscape image of city surrounded by fields and flanked by mountains

Black and white image of Afghan National Army soldier with a rifle and underslung grenade launcher standing next to young boy while in the background a young girl in a compound looks on

Afghan National Army sergeant standing at the bottom of the hill with a compound above and behind him

D30 artillery being fired by Afghan National Army soldiers

British Army soldiers stopping too refill their canteens in open ground in the Belize jungle

A line of British Army soldiers walking uphill on a path through the Belize jungle