Corie Miguel Mapp (born 1978) is an international para-athlete and former Lance Corporal in The Life Guards, the senior regiment of the Household Cavalry and the British Army.
[1][2][3][4] Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Mapp came to Britain in 2005 to join the Army where he was the first Barbadian to ride on the Queen's Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour) and on other mounted State ceremonial duties.
In 2008, he was posted as a combat vehicle driver to the Household Cavalry Regiment in Windsor, which was deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in late 2009.
While on active duty there in early 2010 he lost both legs when his military vehicle ran over an explosive device.
[7] His autobiography Black Ice, written with former Life Guard and military historian, Christopher Joll was published in October 2021.