"It has been something I think about on almost daily basis," says Soldier A, of the moment he was allegedly sexually assaulted 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 by The Royal Gazette as part of an ongoing investigation into the Bermuda Regiment.

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

Now aged 29, he has tried to put his time as a reluctant conscript with the Regiment behind him but still feels that justice was never done in his case. His story makes disturbing reading.

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

"I don't really know what triggered it," he says. "He [the alleged attacker] 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 continues: "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 says of his alleged assailant: "He was 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 claims 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 else, except his best friend, what happened, and has pledged that his children will not set foot in Warwick Camp.

He wonders if he should have gone to Police but says: "I didn't think going to the Police was an option. I thought the Regiment dealt with its own situation."

The Regiment never got back in touch with Soldier A 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 still sometimes sees his alleged attacker in the street — and his former superior always greets him politely, as though nothing took place that day.

"Justice has not been served," he says. "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."

Soldier B's alleged experience differed greatly from that of Soldier A and involved a different officer.

The former conscript is 35 now but remembers vividly how he was made to feel by the man he claims sexually harassed him.

"He just felt that he could take advantage of the fact that he was in a position of authority in the Regiment," he alleges. "He used that to basically flirt with me.

"He'd pull me aside and adjust my lapel, stuff I didn't feel was necessary.

"It made me feel uncomfortable to the point where I used that to try to get out of the Regiment."

He considers there to have been "nothing physical at all" in the sense of an assault. "It was him touching my lapels and being close to me and touching me in that way. I felt as though he was sexually harassing me."

The soldier engaged a lawyer to write a letter to the Regiment outlining his claim.

"That's how they found out about it all," he says. "The Regiment had done some sort of investigation themselves. They said they had contacted the Human Rights Commission.

"Apparently, the Human Rights Commission determined that there was no sexual harassment. I was never interviewed. They just chalked it up to me getting my facts screwed up. They totally dismissed the way I felt personally. They said it was not sexual harassment."

The man says his lawyer's letter was also sent to the Governor of the day, who replied to say: "Sorry, you have got to serve, despite all of this."

But the soldier defied that order and did not return to Warwick Camp, despite having only served a year-and-a-half of his conscription.

"I just ignored his letter and I never went. I was never called up and I never went."

Like Soldier A, he has never heard back from the Regiment and thought the matter was long forgotten until this newspaper got in touch with him.

He feels his complaint was "not dealt with properly at all" and that the officer essentially got away with the alleged harassment. "He got a slap on the wrist at the time and he was up for a promotion that he didn't get."

Soldier B welcomes the Regiment coming under public scrutiny on the issue of sexual misconduct.

"They were just trying to chalk it up to it all being in my imagination," he says. "I remember at the time thinking 'am I the only one?' and I started hearing about other people. I heard it was happening to quite a few."

• Are you a soldier who suffered sexual assault or harassment at Warwick Camp? Tell us your story by emailing sstrangeways@royalgazette.bm or calling 278-0155. All information will be treated in confidence.

The 14 claims

1989 — A soldier alleges he was inappropriately touched.

1990 — A second soldier makes a similar claim.

1994 — Another accusation is made.

Between 1997 and 1999 An allegation of sexual harassment is made.

1998 — Two separate allegations of sexual misconduct are made.

2000 — A soldier reports a sexual assault.

2001 — Two privates make allegations of sexual assault to Regiment bosses.

Between September 2001 and July 2002 — Five further accusations are made.