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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/exsoldier-selling-military-cross.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A former soldier, Ryan Copping is selling the Military Cross he received from the Queen for risking his life in Iraq" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-exsoldier-selling-military-cross.jpg" alt="A former soldier, Ryan Copping is selling the Military Cross he received from the Queen for risking his life in Iraq"/></a></p>
<p>A former soldier is selling the Military Cross he received from the Queen for risking his life in a firefight in Iraq to help provide for his young family, it has been disclosed.</p>
<p>Ryan Copping, 25, formerly of 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wales&#8217;s Royal Regiment, hopes to use up to £22,000 from the sale to help secure the future of his five-year-old daughter.</p>
<p>Mr Copping, from Folkestone, Kent, received the honour at Buckingham Palace in 2007 after putting his life in peril for the sake of his team in Basra a year earlier.</p>
<p>He was the driver of the lead Warrior armoured vehicle at the height of the state of emergency when they came under intense small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.</p>
<p>With the crew struggling to identify the enemy and the route to push on to, former private Copping opened his driver&#8217;s hatch, stuck his head out and began steering through streets strewn with obstacles.</p>
<p>The official citation said he &#8220;remained calm and continued to keep the hatch open despite the enormous amount of fire he received as lead vehicle&#8221;.</p>
<p>Now working in the security industry, he said he reached the decision to sell the MC and his Iraq medals so he and his daughter, Faith, could lead a happier life.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t look at them and see pound notes, but if I don&#8217;t sell them, they will just pass down through my family and some day, somebody else will sell them. So I thought I may as well benefit from them. I have a daughter from a previous relationship to look after and bills to pay and I just want us to have a happier life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also included with the lot is a framed copy of the citation, 11 original photographs, newspaper cuttings and photocopies of congratulatory letters from senior military personnel and the mayor of his home town.</p>
<p>The medals will be sold at Sotheby&#8217;s in central London in a sale conducted by London-based coins and medals specialists Morton &#038; Eden on November 30.</p>
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