WILTSHIRE-born Chris Moon, who lost an arm and a leg while clearing mines in Mozambique in 1995, was cheered by supporters as he passed through Devizes on his walk from John O'Groats to Land's End.

Mr Moon, a former military policeman, is hoping to raise £1m for the Leonard Cheshire foundation, the UK's largest voluntary sector provider of help to disabled people.

After leaving the Army, Mr Moon, 42, joined the Halo Trust, a British charity specialising in mine clearance. It was while working for the charity in east Africa that he suffered his appalling injuries.

While recovering, he took a master's degree and less than a year after leaving hospital completed the London Marathon.

Since then he has completed a number of astonishing events, including the 250km Great Sahara Run, running the length of Cambodia (700km), the Badwater Death Valley Ultra-Marathon (five marathons back-to-back), climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and the Death Valley 300-mile run.

For his latest adventure Mr Moon is setting off at 4am each morning to make the most of each day, walking up to 52 miles a day for 25 days.

His route through Wiltshire passed mainly along the towpath of the Kennet and Avon Canal, and he paused at the Town Bridge, on Northgate Street, Devizes, last Thursday to meet supporters of the Devizes branch of Leonard Cheshire as well as Allan Peach, chairman of Wiltshire County Council.

At the end of his trek at Land's End on Tuesday the father of two was greeted by an RAF flypast, the High Sheriff of Cornwall, the current Miss Cornwall and the Kessenyan Singers.