A SPONSORED 'yomp' over Dartmoor last weekend has raised more than £12,500 for the Help for Heroes charity.
More than 200 servicemen and women took part in the walk, from the Royal Marines' base at Bickleigh to Princetown.
The event was organised by Bernie and Oonagh Refell of North Tawton. Oonagh said the yomp went 'unbelievably well'.
'It was absolutely superb,' she said.
'Some amazing people came along — we had a team who were blind and we had one guy wheel himself in a manual wheelchair the whole way.
'It was lovely because his father came up to me afterwards and said his whole attitude had changed because he'd done it nearly all by himself, it just blew him away.'
The walk followed a route specially designed by Bernie and Oonagh, to take in many of the places that would have significance for current and former servicemen and women taking part, particularly Royal Marines.
Oonagh said they were very grateful to everyone who had taken part in the yomp, which was so successful it may well become an annual event.
She said: 'Everyone was fantastic, Phil and Sarah from the Burrator Inn who raised over £1,000 from an event earlier in the year, and the guys at the Plume of Feathers were outstanding, we turned their place upside down and they were so accommodating.'