"There was a massive bang. At that stage you know that you are going to have a casualty. I ran down the line of troops and told everyone to stay still. The patrol commander had been hit in the neck by a lump of shrapnel and there was another casualty further forward. I moved up and jumped into the crater where Rifleman Bassett was injured. He had lost both his legs but was still conscious. We managed to get him out and onto a helicopter but he died in hospital. We later discovered that there were three other devices in the same area, one of which I had driven across."