Macer Gifford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Syrian Democratic Forces
Ukraine
Macer Gifford | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Gifford in 2017. | |
| Born | Harry Rowe[1] 1987 (age 38–39) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
|
| Branch | |
| Service years | 2015–2017; 2022–present |
| Unit | Nightingale Squadron[2] |
| Conflicts | |
Harry Rowe (born 1987), known as Macer Gifford, is a British former currency trader and volunteer fighter and medic who, between mid-2015[3] and 2017,[4] travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State group, and as of 2022, is a volunteer medic and recruiter for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion in Ukraine.[5] He took his identity from National Hunt jockey Macer Gifford, the brother of four-time champion jockey Josh Gifford. He spent five months fighting with the YPG in 2015 before returning to the UK in 2015. In 2016 he completed a second tour with the YPG in Syria. In Ukraine, Gifford is reportedly "running a battlefield first aid training programme that he first pioneered with the Kurds [in Syria]."[5]