Jon-allan butterworth biography of william hill
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Jon-Allan Butterworth MBE retires from the Great Britain ....
Ex-RAF serviceman on his journey to the Paralympics
Jon-Allan Butterworth joined the RAF aged 16 to train as a weapons technician and lost his left arm during a bombing in Basra, Iraq, five years ago.
From Sutton Coldfield, he holds the world record for the 1km time trial and won a gold medal in the 2010 World Championships.
Mr Butterworth spoke to the Mail on Sunday’s Live Magazine about his long journey from Iraq to Stratford:
On my chest I have a four-inch scar.
Above it is a tattoo. It says ‘August 4, 2007’, the day that changed my life.
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I was driving my jeep to work, in the explosives storage area at the airbase in Basra. My shift began at 6.45am and already it was approaching 35 degrees Celsius.
The road I was driving along was nicknamed ‘Rocket Alley’ because we had so many missile attacks there.
On average they happened eight times a day.
You’d hear a bomb, go for cover, wait for the explosion and then wait for the all-clear. In the early days your heart would stop,