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More help for troops trying to rebuild their lives

Pte Herbert was providing "top cover" in a Snatch Land Rover in Basra when his unit from the 1Bn The Yorkshire Regiment was ambushed.
In the seconds after the attack the soldier only knew of the hideous wound when he tried to stand and he saw the tibia and fibia bones of his shattered leg. His best friend Pte Luke Simpson was killed by the bomb and another soldier injured. Pte Herbert is being cared for at Headley Court, Surrey, the British military's top medical facility.
The growing number of casualties returning from Afghanistan and Iraq has forced the Ministry of Defence to open a new ward for the seriously wounded at Headley Court, a Government minister admitted yesterday. Read It Here

A fortnight ago the MoD opened a new, 30-bed annexe at Headley Court, the national Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC).
Veterans' minister Derek Twigg went down to open it. The extra beds were needed to
cope with the increasing number of casualties coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, as Mr Twigg conceded in his remarks.
"Clearly there is some hard fighting taking place out there - with a great deal of courage and sacrifice - and we have to contend with more injured."
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He says "injured", I say "wounded", but there we are.
Headley Court, a handsome Jacobean mansion set in 84 acres of well-kept parkland in Epsom, Surrey, is where the most gravely wounded servicemen and women go for rehabilitation, after Selly Oak has finished the surgical work: operations, skin-grafting, stitching-up. Read It Here

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