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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.

Since losing his left arm in a rocket attack during miltary service in Iraq, the former RAF serviceman has become a world para-cycling champion and record.

'Pretty much every time I race on track I break the world record,' says Jon-Allan Butterworth in a matter-of-fact way.

Jon-Allan Butterworth was involved in a rocket attack on Basra Air Station in Iraq after which he was operated on by doctors in a battlefield hospital.

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Jon-Allan was born in Birmingham and joined the RAF at the age of 16 as a weapons engineer.

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.

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