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Meet injured ex-serviceman, Paralympian and most recently, star of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins; Jon-Allan Butterworth MBE. Hehas represented Great Britain at two Paralympic Games with incredible results – winning three silver medals in and a gold medal in In , he was awarded his MBE for services to cycling.

Yet only a decade ago, Jon-Allan didn’t even own a bike and hadn’t ridden since he was a child.

After leaving secondary school, Jon-Allan joined the RAF,  serving in Afghanistan in and Iraq in as a Weapons Technician.

On 4 August he was caught in a rocket attack on Basra Air Station, Iraq, losing part of his left arm.

“We had breakfast, drove the Land Rover on the way to work [and then] the early warning sirens started to go off and the rockets came in.

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I was just unlucky; I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. A bit of shrapnel tore through my left arm. Somehow, it missed all of my vital organs.”

He was operated on by doctors in a