He singled out Marine McBean as "Prince Harry's personal hero" and Marine Ormrod as a "legend" at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham for his swift recovery.
Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.