Soldiers of the Coldstream Guards's 1st Battalion in a poppy field waiting for a Chinook helicopter to extract them, following operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2012 (en)
The Helmandis still celebrate Maiwand with the fervour and freshness Scots bring to celebrations of Bannockburn, Serbians Kosovo Field and Russians Stalingrad. The British were hated in Helmand before they’d fired a shot. (en)