DAUNTSEY'S school was celebrating last week after former pupil Fiona Bullen won four medals in the pool at the Invictus Games and was congratulated by Prince Harry.

Miss Bullen, who was a pupil at the independent school at West Lavington, near Devizes from 19996 until 2004 was severely injured during a training exercise while working as flight lieutenant in the RAF.

She had to have multiple hip operations and a spinal operation and now has limited mobility and long-term chronic neuropathic pain in her leg. A swimming course organised through Help for Heroes Recovery Centre, Tedworth House, reminded her of her love for competitive sport and taught her about the benefits of low impact sport for her injuries.

She originally took part in the first Invictus Games, which was the brain child of Prince Harry, in London in 2014 and then competed again earlier this month in Orlando, Florida which she said gave her a reason to get up to train and be good at something again.

She said: “Talking about what I can do is much more satisfying and interesting than talking about the can’t dos.”

In 2009, she had been awarded the Sword of Honour on passing out from Royal Airforce College in Cranwell.