MP to join soldiers on Help for Heroes charity walk

Geoffrey Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, will accompany two soldiers from the Territorial Army on part of their journey on foot of nearly 1000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats in aid of the military charity Help4Heroes. Second Lieutenants Cole and Phillips have invited Geoffrey Cox MP to join them in Clovelly on part of their route through the Torridge & West Devon constituency, when they also hope to discuss with the MP the role and importance of the charity. 

The walk will begin along the South West Coast Path section from the North Cornish coast and through Devon and Somerset before entering Wales and moving further north. The soldiers will be living on military issue ration packs and will be sleeping under military issue bashas (tarpaulins) for the whole trip.

Geoffrey Cox MP said “I am very much looking forward to joining and supporting Second Lieutenants Cole and Phillips on some of their journey through Torridge. They are going on an extremely arduous hike, the length of Great Britain, and they are doing it for a vital cause, to promote the welfare of British servicemen and women wounded on active service for their country. It is hard to think of what could be more important and worthwhile to support than that."