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Andrew was born in 1961 and spent his early years in Harwich, attending local schools there before going to Bristol to study medicine. After qualifying he did his houseman year in Plymouth and Southmead Hospital Bristol. He then joined the Navy as a Medical Officer and served in a wide variety of appointments including as MO in HMS Bristol under the command of Captain Alan West who is now a Labour peer and ex minister.
The Navy sent him back to university (Cambridge) for a year to study public health. He spent a lot of time at Southampton General on research leading to a load of publications and a doctoral thesis entitled 'Studies into the Neurological Consequences of Diving' for which he received the Navy's Gilbert Blane medal. He left the Navy, with a heavy heart, at the end of 2000 in the rank of Surgeon Commander to fight the 2001 general election for the then Westbury seat.
Andrew has been a reservist since leaving the regulars. In 2003, having opposed the Iraq war, he was recalled to serve as doctor to an Army battlegroup near Basra.
In opposition he set up David Cameron's Military Covenant Commission chaired by Frederick Forsyth. It led to the concept gaining a place in statute. He wrote a book called 'Tommy This and Tommy That - The Military Covenant.' After the Conservative Party won in 2010, David Cameron tasked Andrew with reporting on military healthcare. Recommendations from his reports 'Fighting Fit' and 'A Better Deal for Military Amputees' were accepted by government, funded and rolled out.
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