Ex-soldier retrains after head injury in Afghanistan

29 December 2011 Last updated at 07:38 ET Help

A former soldier from Derbyshire, who was injured on two separate tours in Afghanistan, is retraining as a landscape architect after he had to leave the Army on medical grounds.

A bullet shattered Chris Parrott's leg in a gunfight with the Taliban when he was 18.

On his next tour he suffered a serious head injury when fragments of a grenade entered his head through a gap between his helmet and glasses.

Mr Parrott is now training to be a landscape architect but said he would prefer to be back serving in Afghanistan.

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