A VETERAN who has tackled the pawsome feat of travelling more than 120,000 miles on a mobility scooter has arrived in Dorchester- but he's not alone.

Mark Newton, 49, has already travelled along the coast of Great Britain on a mobility scooter, towing the trailer he lives in with two cats as he goes.

Now he is back for ‘Phase 2’, to take photographs of all the inland war memorials by county, an undertaking he estimates will take him 10 years.

He said: “I base myself in a location and go out in roughly a ten to 15 mile radius, I leave the trailer and cats behind as travelling is a lot easier without it.

“There has been on point in Wiltshire where I had to photograph 910 graves in one cemetery, this took me five days.

“There is only so much I can do in one day before the injuries I have start to really complain.”

He arrived in Dorset in mid-January and will be here until April, photographing war memorials in each town.

These pictures are sent off to his website and volunteers at the Imperial War Museum use them to create a database.

On Saturday, he unhooked his trailer at Tesco in Dorchester and took snaps of all memorials in the town.

Mr Watson said: “I’m an ex-tank crewman, so I feel quite at home with Dorset [the headquarters of the Royal Tank Regiment].

“I going to Bovington to see some of the people I’ve served with or met along the way.”

After serving as a tank crew member for the 1st Queen’s Dragoons, he joined onto the United Nations.

In 1991, he suffered a life-changing injury to his leg.

His condition deteriorated and in 2009 he found himself in a mobility scooter – paid for through the generosity of his old regiment and the British Legion.

Now, whilst he goes about his chronicling of memorials, he collects donations for the Royal British Legion, the SSAFA, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Help for Heroes and his regiment.

He said: “In April 2015 I was awarded a Guinness World Record for my efforts of travelling around the coast on a Beamer Tramper TWS.

“In the same month I was presented with an award (in my absence) for being the individual who raised the most money in 2014 for the British Legion, this was because of the public’s generosity.”