Prince Harry is headed for his final tour of duty in the elite SAS headquarters in Perth, Western Australia where the soldier who claims to have shot the Taliban warlord who was intent on killing the royal heir works as a training commander. Mark Donaldson is one of Australia's most highly decorated soldiers, one of the very few to have been awarded the nation's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, for his bravery in Afghanistan. Corporal Donaldson VC revealed in 2013 how four years earlier he had been a member of an elite Special Air Services unit ordered to assassinate a Taliban warlord who had boasted that he intended to kill Prince Harry.Prince Harry arrives in Australia next Monday ahead of four-week stayHe will fulfill a dream by training with the elite SAS regiment in PerthWar hero and VC winner Mark Donaldson is an SAS trainer in PerthDonaldson has written about how he saved the Prince from the TalibanDonaldson and crack SAS unit shot dead in 2009 a Taliban warlord who boasted of killing Prince HarryPrince will also go bush with Indigenous NORFORCE troopsThe royal said to be excited for 'challenging and hectic' scheduleThe trip is the last of Prince Harry's military career before he retires
Valour under fire: _ (pictured, right, with fellow troopers in Afghanistan) was awarded the VC for his actions in September 2008, when, despite being advised not to go and help, Donaldson ran 80 metres to rescue a wounded interpreter, while under heavy machine gun fire for a large group of insurgents.