“It has been something I think about on an almost daily basis,” said Soldier A, of the moment he was allegedly sexually assaulted by Major Glenn Brangman at Warwick Camp.

“I have really tried to forget the whole thing, I really have, and I haven’t been able to. I want to forget this situation.

“It’s just something in the back of your mind: did this really happen? Was this real? Was this a part of my life that happened?”

Soldier A was contacted in 2009 by The Royal Gazette as part of an ongoing investigation into historic claims of sexual assault at the Bermuda Regiment.

He was shocked to get the call — and even more shocked, he said, that somebody cared enough to bother asking what happened to him at Warwick Camp.

He had tried to put his time as a reluctant conscript with the Regiment behind him but still felt that justice was never done in his case. His story makes for disturbing reading.

At the time of the alleged attack, Soldier A, now in his thirties, was in trouble for failing to attend Warwick Camp and was doing extra duties.

“I don’t really know what triggered it,” he said. “He [Brangman] told me to sit down in the chair. I was sitting in the chair and I believe he was in the room, in the back, and then he had come back in front.

“When he came back he sort of grabbed me by the belt of my army pants and sort of pulled me up. He was [a superior] at the time. What was I to do?

“I didn’t know what to say or do about it. He kind of picked me up by my pants. That’s when I kind of thought something really weird was going on.

“He was like: ‘I want you to do something nice for me. I’ll do whatever you want. You don’t have to worry about money and things like that there.’

“All of a sudden he just tried to unbuckle my pants. [I said] ‘This is not happening right now, mate. I’m not like that.’”

Soldier A, who asked to remain anonymous, continued: “As I backed off, he shook me up and was like: ‘Do you know who I am?’ I was so upset. He actually did fondle my parts.”

The man described Brangman as “like a predator. Predators have teeth and claws.

“They go after deers and deers don’t have claws and teeth and can’t fight back. I felt helpless. Say I would have snapped and killed him? I would have been locked up in jail for life.”

The conscript reported the assault but claimed he was made to feel like the one who did something wrong by those in charge.

“They had me in there, crying and s**t. They said I was gay. They was blaming me for it.

“They blamed me for everything. They made me feel like I wasn’t the victim. They tried to make me feel like the criminal.

“I went to them and they retaliated like I was the worst human in the world. Ever since that day, I have not been at Warwick Camp.”

The former soldier has never told anyone, apart from his best friend, what happened, and has pledged that his children will not set foot in Warwick Camp.

He wondered if he should have gone to police but said: “I didn’t think going to the police was an option. I thought the Regiment dealt with its own situation.”

He said the Regiment never got back in touch with him about his allegation or told him the outcome of any inquiry.

Instead, he got a letter in the post telling him he was dishonourably discharged due to his poor attendance.

He said he still sometimes saw his alleged attacker in the street — and his former superior always greeted him politely, as though nothing took place that day.

“Justice has not been served,” he said. “I can tell you that firsthand. If they can’t have the decency to call me to even ask me how I’m doing after a situation that left me broken, in tears, why should they say that justice has been served?

“There is no way that justice has been served. They don’t have the decency to call me back or say sorry.”