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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Blast soldier: “I realised my feet had gone”

Shelagh Fogarty

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Cpl Tom Neathway from the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, who lost three limbs in Afghanistan in 2008 from a bomb explosion, recounts the blast and tells Shelagh about giving himself emergency medical treatment with one arm during a fire fight whilst on the battlefield.

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