What it’s like to work in the shadows of trauma

Pete White was ready to serve his country when the RAF deployed him to Afghanistan in 2011 as a communications engineer, responsible for maintenance work on classified computers. Only four weeks after landing, the 22-year-old was transferred to perform the role of a ‘night watchkeeper’. ‘We would get a report that was effectively a kind of a who, what, why, when, how, anytime there was a British casualty,’ Pete explains. ‘I would take the images and videos