A Royal Marine known as "the commando who refused to die" has told how he battled back after suffering horrific injuries in Afghanistan.
Corporal Paul Vice returned to the UK with more than 100 injuries, 300 pieces of shrapnel in his body, partial paralysis and a heart condition after he was caught in an IED blast.
The father-of-four "died" twice as he was airlifted back to Camp Bastion following the explosion.
But after surgery and further treatment he recovered sufficiently to compete in this year's Invictus Games for injured service personnel - winning medals in cycling and archery.
Cpl Vice, who was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in two previous incidents, told Sunrise he loved serving in Afghanistan, but "it all went horribly wrong" on 25 August, 2011.
He said: " We were doing our usual thing - sussing out the ground, speaking to locals and you get a feel for things when the atmospherics change - children started running away and I noticed an IED in the wall... and the two guys about to trigger it.
"So I initially turned to run away, shouted 'run' to the rest of the guys - unfortunately just that bit too late and it was triggered."
Cpl Vice praised quick thinking by one of his comrades, who may have saved his life by using his knee to put pressure on a neck wound.
He said: "I remember lying there thinking 'if I go to sleep there, I'm never waking up'.
"I thought I was thrashing around, but the guys said I was just wriggling ever so slightly.
I was just thinking 'stay awake, because if you go to sleep now, that's it, you're done'."
He said his ordeal had had an even greater impact on his family.
He said: "I think they have an even rougher deal than I do because I was in hospital with my lads, in rehab with my lads, but all that time my wife's had to be in hospital, on her own, with four children as well.
"We come home and get medals and praise, but they don't get anything - they deserve medals."
Cpl Vice has worked with filmmaker Chris Terrill who has produced a documentary, The Commando Who Refused To Die, which is being shown on Forces TV.
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