A British veteran who lost his beret on the Tube while traveling to London for the Remembrance Day service, had it returned to him after a network of cabbies scoured London to find it.
Paul Jacobs, from Ramsgate, only noticed his beret was missing when he reached the Cenotaph in Westminster, as thousands gathered to pay their respects on Sunday.
The father-of-one put a call out on social media, which was picked up by volunteer taxi driver Dave Hempstead who travelled across London to deliver it to Paul.
Paul, who served in the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was blinded by a Taliban bomb while trying to save a colleague in Afghanistan in 2009.
The rifleman, aged 20 at the time, spent three weeks in a coma after the incident.
He was awarded the George Medal for bravery having been commended for ‘acts of bravery not in the face of the enemy’.
Speaking to Good Morning Britainthis morning, Paul said: …