A former prefect at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Dover is organising the 200-mile trek across the polar ice-cap which Prince Harry is taking part in.

Simon Daglish is leading a team four disabled servicemen on the Walking with the Wounded challenge.

The Prince is spending the first five days of what is expected to be a four-week mission in temperatures below -20C and landscapes of unremitting snow and ice.

They hope to enter the record books as the first disabled team to walk unassisted to the North Pole and raise £2m for Walking With The Wounded, a charity founded by Simon with Ed Parker.

Simon is a former Chief School Prefect at the Duke of York’s who went on to join Sandhurst and the Army. He has been given a school pennant to take with him on the trek.

He said: "Walking with the wounded will be my little way of saying thank you and helping to raise funds so vitally needed to help these brave people back into some sort of ‘normality’."

Simon lives and works in London and is married with two children.

Prince Harry said: "This extraordinary expedition will raise awareness of the debt that this country owes to those it sends off to fight, only for them to return wounded and scarred, physically and emotionally."

The four wounded soldiers have been training together for several months were all injured in Afghanistan.