Wounded Soldiers Could Face Redundancy, Leaked Memo Shows

More than twice as many soldiers as previously announced could face being made redundant over the next few years, according to a leaked classified memo.

The document, seen by the Daily Telegraph, suggests as many as 16,500 Army personnel could be made redundant by April 2015, in a dramatic acceleration of cuts to the armed forces.

According to the memo, those laid off could include as many as 2,500 wounded soldiers – 350 of them who have lost a limb, the newspaper said. But the Ministry of Defence said it had “absolutely no plan” to change the way it treated wounded, injured and sick soldiers.

Distancing itself from the contents of the memo, which was reported to have been sent to senior commanders in Afghanistan, an MoD spokeswoman said no decisions had been taken on the scale of the next tranche of redundancies.
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