#326. MBE for Role in Brutal Bosnia War - Wayne Ingram MBE

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Wayne’ talks through the horrors of devastation in Bosnia. From ethnic cleansing to terrorism in Ireland, Wayne has been all over the world and talks through the nightmares he saw that led to his PTSD. He also talks through fighting the IRA in their MOST hostile period.

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0:00.0	What was it like fighting in a war in Bosnia?
0:03.0	That was the worst war that I've ever been to.
0:07.0	It was just a thing you saw.
0:10.0	The further you go into Bosnia, the more devastation you see.
0:14.0	What did you see that you'd wish you hadn't seen?
0:16.0	I heard one story.
0:17.0	So these guys were sat on top of this hill.
0:19.0	The village itself is then mortared. So he went down with these guys. The first thing he said, I got present it was this baby with half his head. And the mum was in so much shock that she was cutting this baby. Oh, God. atrocities happened there. It was very similar to the Second World War. What was it like fighting in Ireland? My island messed me up in time. There was no decompression. Every single rate, there was people being killed.
0:39.2	What level of PTSD did you have? Island. My island messed me up in time. There was no decompression. Every single rate,
0:38.1	there was people being killed.
0:39.2	What level of PTSD did you have, do you think, on a scale of 1 to 10?
0:43.6	10.
0:44.4	Okay.
0:45.5	Yeah, at the end, at the end, it was definitely 10.
0:47.6	I was just this aggressive ticking time bomb.
0:50.7	At night time, just later, I think, oh, frankly, if I'd done this,
0:54.6	I didn't want to go back. I really didn't go back. So my trigger point was on the 22nd of September, 1993. A very good friend of mine, got blinded up in front of me, and I had to give him first eight. I'd go to, I'd try and go sleep a good week after it. And hear, see, and the explosion. So I still want to get to the answer here.
1:12.4	What is PTSD like?
1:13.9	What goes through your mind to realize that you have this?
1:21.6	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.
1:29.2	I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens,
1:31.6	the world's largest sport and music festival.
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