SAS hero awarded so many medals tailors had to reinforce his suit
AN SAS hero who fought hotel terrorists has been awarded so many medals tailors had to reinforce his suit.
Christian Craighead has won 14 gongs in his career.
They include the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross — Britain’s second highest bravery award — for defeating al-Shabaab jihadists in a 19-hour battle in 2019.
The former SAS sergeant, who has also won an MBE and a Mention in Dispatches, posted pictures of himself having a dinner suit specially adapted on London’s Savile Row.
He wrote of the Huntsman tailors — the real-life inspiration for Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman movies — who fitted the secret retractable medal holder: “They were able to solve the problem of securing my medals by designing a support arm which can be stowed away when medals are not worn.”
Christian unmasked himself this month with a picture of him about to storm the hotel followed by Kenyan forces.
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He hopes to publish an account of how he ended the siege that left 21 dead.
Christian was in Kenya to train special forces and was off-duty when jihadists launched the horrific attack.
He raced to the scene in his civvies, and pulled on a camouflage flak jacket before leading a counter-attack armed with a rifle, pistol and combat knife.