They are among more than 80 suspected suicides among serving and former personnel this year – already more than the 75 who died in 2019. One former soldier, Trevor Coult, who won the Military Cross during the Iraq War, said the Ministry of Defence should hang its head in shame over the deaths. The first to die was Iraq War veteran Robert McCormack, 36, who was found in the Reddish Vale area of Stockport on November 9 after his family reported him missing. The 37-year-old member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan was married with three kids. Brother George Wright wrote on Facebook : “He was loved by everyone he came into contact with.

Source: Daily Mirror December 05, 2020 21:56 UTC