Veteran Rob thanks medics after achieving Invictus Games dream

52-year-old presents Team GB kit to staff following recovery from cycling accident

- Sentinel Reporter

AN Army veteran who broke his neck and fractured his skull in a cycling accident has praised medics who helped him achieve his Invictus Games dream.

Fifty-two-year-old Rob Shenton needed treatment from Royal Stoke’s Acute Rehabilitation Trauma Unit (ARTU) and Therapies department.

He sustained the injuries in a cycling accident near to his Biddulph Moor home in August 2020.

And after representing Team GB in Nordic skiing and indoor rowing at the Invictus Games in Canada earlier this year, he returned to the Royal Stoke during Armed Forces Week to present his Team GB kit to the staff who supported his rehabilitation.

Rob, who served on missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan during his military career, said: "I was out riding on my bike when I lost control and banged my head on a tree. I broke six vertebrae in my neck and fractured my lower skull and left shoulder socket.