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Jon-Allan Butterworth
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 2012 and a gold medal in 2016.
In 2017, 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 2005 and Iraq in 2007 as a Weapons Technician.
On 4 August 2007 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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