Trivia

He is the President of the St. Loyes, Disability Sport England, Concern, Association to Aid Refugees, Wel-Care, Seed, and is a patron of COCO, Children's Chance, Emmaus, and is an Ambassador for the Princes Trust.

In July 1999, he was the first amputee to complete the Badwater Death Valley ultra-marathon.

May 15-31, 1999, he ran the length of Cambodia (700 kilometers) to raise funds for the Red Cross.

In September 1998, he completed the Outback Challenge in Australia.

In February 1998, he carried the Olympic torch into the stadium for the Nagano Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

In July 1997, he ran 200 kilometers for four days with the Australian Army to assist mine victims.

In 1995, he survived a mine explosion in Cambodia but lost his lower right arm and leg.

After specialist training from a Royal Engineer bomb disposal officer, he supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance. He was one of the few westerners to survive abduction in the Khmer Rouge and negotiated for his and two Cambodian colleagues release from the jungle base when they walked 50 kilometers through the patrolled and mined jungle.

In April 1997, he was the first leg amputee to complete the 250 km Great Sahara Run. He also completed the London Marathon for charity.

In March 1999, he was awarded the Snowdon Special Award for leadership and help to the disabled by Lord Snowdon.

He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1996 Queen's Honours List for his services to the HALO Trust clearing anti-personnel mines.

He earned his Masters Degree in Security Management at the University of Leicester in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He was awarded honorary degrees from the Universities of Plymouth, Leicester, and Exeter.

He studied agriculture at Seale Hayne College Newton Abbot (now Plymouth University faculty of agriculture) in Devon, England. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Military Police and served in several infantry units.

England (April 2010)