British army officer publishes book written for children to explain absences

Published: 1:19PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Christopher McGregor: My Daddy"s Going Away is accessible around Chris"s website mydaddysgoingaway.com

Christopher McGregor a vital in the King"s Royal Hussars had struggled to insist his absences to young kids Ben, 5, and Ellie, elderly three, as he served a a tank commander in chief in Basra.

"It"s distressing for lots of reasons as you vanish off on an operation," He said.

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"When you"re on tour, you get on with the pursuit in hand. But when you"re alone at night, and listening to the space station fire, you think of your family," he said.

Although his mother Vicky did her most appropriate to keep have their father piece of Ben and Ellie"s lives, but Maj McGregor was concerned to do more.

On his moody behind to Britain, he scribbled the beginnings of a poem, My Daddy"s Going Away.

"I was essay the book for Ben and Ellie," he explained.

"The goal was to assistance them understanding with something I call "temporary consanguine subdivision anxiety" since being in the Forces equates to that I would positively go afar again.

"I goal it improves the lives of children, family groups and the dads that go afar for opposite reasons," he added.

And as well as the soap-box reviews from his own kids, the book has been since the Royal sign of approval, with Prince Charles essay the foreword.

My Daddy"s Going Away is accessible around Chris"s website mydaddysgoingaway.com, and he hopes it will shortly be accessible in bookshops via the UK.