July 7 bombing hero breaks his silence after MBE honour
“Largely, it was a question of getting people down on the ground inside the carriage, making them comfortable, and stemming the bleeding.
“There were no medical facilities so we had to improvise, which meant raising people’s limbs in the air to stem their bleeding.”
The emergency services started to arrive about half an hour after the explosion, one of four which caused death and destruction across London at the hands of a group of Islamic extremist suicide bombers.
Nothing has previously been published about Mr Hucklesby’s actions that day, but he said: “I haven’t gone out of my way to seek out publicity, I was simply a member of the public doing what I could to help.
“It is an amazing thing to be awarded an MBE, entirely unexpected. I was one of a number of people helping out on that day who would feel privileged to get this award.”
Mr Hucklesby, who works as a policy advisor for the Methodist Church, said he had kept in touch with several of the injured from that day on the train, but had no idea who had nominated him for the MBE.
