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BRYN PARRY CBE
Everyone at Help for Heroes is deeply saddened by the death of our co-founder Bryn Parry CBE following a short illness with pancreatic cancer. We look back at some of the highlights from his remarkable work helping veterans and their families.
In August 2007 Bryn and Emma Parry visited Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham to talk to soldiers who had been wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Bryn, who had been a Captain in the Royal Green Jackets, was shocked by the sheer number of service personnel being cared for and the severity of their wounds. Modern military medicine was saving soldiers who in former conflicts would have died on the battlefield. These were the so-called unexpected survivors.
That day Bryn and Emma decided that something had to be done for these ser- vicemen and women. All of whom would face long periods of recovery. Some would have to cope with the consequences of their injuries for the rest of their lives.
Early the following week they published “The first dispatch from a new organisa- tion we are going to call Help for Heroes.” They wrote:
Bryn and Emma fundraising on their bikes in Paris
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