James Wharton

James Wharton served in the Household Cavalry from 2003-2013 serving both ceremonially in London and operationally in Iraq. He left the army last year and is now a writer and campaigner focusing on LGBT equality and the welfare of service men and women in the British military. He is the author of bestselling Out in the Army, published by Biteback.

Members of the Army and rescue teams help evacuate people from flooded properties after they became trapped by rising floodwater when the River Ouse bursts its banks in York city centre.

David Cameron, it's time to give the army a pay rise

US soldiers and Iraqi police take part in their last joint patrol in Khan Bani Saad, some 10 kms south of the town of Baquba, on June 28 2009, as a sandstorm engulfs this northeastern region of the county. US combat troops will pull out from Iraq's cities

If the Chilcot Inquiry finds that the Iraq War was illegal, I'll

British Army soldiers in Basra, southern Iraq, 2004

15 years after the ban on gay people in the military was lifted, we

British female troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan

There are simply no good reasons why women should not be allowed to

Not every British soldier deserves a medal

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

Britain First hijacking the poppy is a vile insult to veterans like