Prince William ensured the safe passage of a trapped Afghan soldier who he knew from Sandhurst to the UK after hearing of his plight.
The Duke of Cambridge, 39, decided to intervene after hearing that the officer, who he met during his training at the military academy in Berkshire, was trapped in Kabul with his family after the Taliban seized power earlier this month.
The royal's equerry naval officer Rob Dixon was able to contact personnel in the region and the former cadet, who is thought to have served in the Afghan national army, and his relatives were permitted to board a flight at Kabul airport to Britain.
The duke's intervention comes as Britain and America officially ended their military presence in Afghanistan this week - leaving behind hundreds of citizens and Afghan allies desperate to flee the country.
Prince William, 39, decided to intervene after he heard that an Afghan officer, who he met during his training at Sandhurst, was trapped with his family in Kabul
The officer in Afghanistan had previously worked closely with British troops and his role had left him and his family, which included women and children, in a vulnerable position within the country, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Following his rescue, former paratrooper Major Andrew Fox, said the duke's intervention was 'fully in line with what we get taught in the Army in terms of values'.
He told The Daily Telegraph: 'I myself got 2 Para to rush out into the crowd and grab someone for me.
'It's fully in line with what we get taught in the Army in terms of values, loyalty, respect for others, all that good stuff. We're trained to help where we can.
'The situation was so chaotic and was so, frankly, mismanaged, that people would do whatever they could to get out.'
Earlier this week, Britain and America officially ended their military presence in Afghanistan with the final US troops flying out from Kabul's airport.
And a night-vision image showed America's Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, boarding a military transport as the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
The RAF had made its last evacuation flight on Sunday to give US forces enough time to clear the ground ahead of the deadline set by Joe Biden, bringing to an end a deployment which began in the wake of September 11.
The UK government helped fly some 15,000 people
