Afghanistan

Forgotten Heroes reaches out to carers

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For every seriously injured serviceman or woman flown back to Britain there is at least one unpaid carer.

There are currently more than six million carers in the country, eleven per cent of the population.

The only charity specifically for the carers of military personnel was launched eight months ago.

The Forgotten Heroes has heard from more than thirteen hundred carers of military personnel.

In the last five years more than five thousand personnel have been flown home injured or ill, more than five hundred and thirty of them have been seriously injured in Afghanistan.