Army
Medics Honoured As Sierra Leone Declared Ebola Free
Operational medals have been awarded to 5 Armoured Medical Regiment for the part they played during Operation Gritrock.
Op Gritrock was the codename assigned to the plan to deploy British troops to combat the outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Recognition of their work comes in the same week the country was officially declared free of the disease.
More than 50 members of the regiment deployed in October last year. All British service personnel have now returned home, with the mission in the country now over.
It saw the conversion of a football stadium into an Ebola Training Academy, from where the servicemen and women trained over 4,000 medical personnel.
More from Forces TV: The Fight Against Ebola: Operation Gritrock
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