A war veteran decoarted for his courage said he went through a period of gruelling mental processing due to the hideous sights he saw during the Iraq invasion, which happened 20 years ago today.
Sergeant Major John Thompson, 43, a single dad-of-three from Devon, was one of the first British soldiers to step foot in Iraq after the invasion was launched on March 20, 2003.
Mr Thompson, a member of the Royal Marines Delta unit, was the third squad to land as helicopters swooped in from an offshore aircraft carrier.
