SAS WHO DARES WINS

I’m a military brat. My dad was a major in the British Army, my mum a medic specialising in gunshot wounds. That’s how they met — rumour has it I was conceived on a boat back from a posting in Cyprus. I was born in Scotland, christened in Edinburgh Castle and subsequently attended military school in England, Ireland and Germany until I was 10 before we moved to New Zealand. One of my first ever memories is of me sitting on my Dad’s foot begging him not to leave the house to go to war.

I applied for the NZ Army when I was 17 and attended a ROSB — Regular Officer Selection Board — the same year. I loved the physicality