Johnson Beharry VC reunited with Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle at the National Army Museum

See a Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle linked to Johnson Beharry VC’s extraordinary acts of bravery in Iraq, on free public display outside the National Army Museum.

About the event

On the 15th anniversary of the end of the war in Iraq, a Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle will be on free public display outside the National Army Museum from Tuesday, 2 June to Sunday, 14 June 2026. Recently decommissioned after more than 40 years of Army service, the vehicle has been gifted to the Museum by the British Army.

Research by Army experts has confirmed this Warrior was present during operations in Iraq in 2004 and was almost certainly the vehicle in which then-Private Johnson Beharry earned the Victoria Cross for two separate acts of bravery under sustained enemy attack. In a remarkable reunion, WO1 Johnson Beharry VC will come face to face with the vehicle for the first time since the actions for which he received Britain’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

For almost four decades, Warrior armoured vehicles carried British soldiers into conflicts around the world. Fast, heavily armed and strongly protected, Warrior earned the trust of generations of soldiers and saved lives on operations from the Gulf to Afghanistan.

This Warrior served in Iraq in 2003 with 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, before most recently deploying to Estonia as part of Nato’s forward defence on the Alliance’s eastern flank.

 

 

Additional information

During National Army Museum opening hours, 10.00am to 5.30pm

Outside the National Army Museum, with medals and related objects displayed inside