Whimpering and just days old, he was being kicked like a football by a crowd of children on a street in Afghanistan.

When Corporal Sarah Marriott rescued the tiny puppy, he was barely the size of her hand.

The 30-year-old Army medic, who was on foot patrol with the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment in Helmand Province, was told that the youngsters had been asked to drown the little dog because his owners did not want him – so she carried him back to her base….

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