Up to 10,000 British soldiers are classed as ­unfit for duty today – and would not be risked in active operations on the front line, the Sunday People can reveal.

Many of the injured servicemen and women on the payroll were wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Some will never be able to fight for their country again.

Reported by the Sunday People. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.