Tragic Chorley war veteran was traumatised by horror of little boy's death the frontline - and then 'failed by the Army'
The family of a Chorley veteran who served in Afghanistan have criticised the Armed Forces for failing soldiers who have witnessed the horror of war.
"Soldiers from his squadron came to his wake and said it was the seventh funeral they had been to that year. Something needs to be done because there are too many young men dying by their own hand like this. "It's my belief that after he had his little lad his guilt overcome him. He told me that being in conflict didn't bother him as far as he was concerned, the Taliban had volunteered to go to war, but it was the collateral damage that bothered him."
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