The Royal Engineer had been based at the Brompton Barracks in Chatham.

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The court heard that Wells, a former Royal Engineer, had been in the Army from the ages of 16 to 21, serving in Macedonia and Sierra Leone.

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The jury of three men and nine women was told that in 2009 Mr Alexander, a former Army Royal Engineer, admitted similar offences and charges including possessing firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life.

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