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James Wharton

Biography

James Wharton is the North of England reporter at BFBS Forces News and a former soldier in the British Army. A veteran of Iraq, he served both operationally and ceremonially during a ten-year career in the Household Cavalry. After leaving the military, he retrained at the BFBS Academy before earning a degree from the University of Warwick.

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