More than 2,000 Fijians are currently serving in the British forces, trading their palm-fringed Pacific islands for the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Why do they do it? For a passport out of poverty and to fight for the nation that once ruled them.
Each day, on the frontlines of Afghanistan, a league of nations fights tooth and nail for Britain, representing the broad church of the Commonwealth. Nepali Gurkhas, South African logistics specialists, Australian Special Services and, above all others, Fijian infantrymen patrol the streets of a foreign land for a foreign master. Today more than 2,000 Fijian nationals serve in the MoD but the legacy of war has left Fiji's army families torn apart by grief and suffering.