A Warminster woman will soon be swapping her British Army career and selling her home for life in a touring caravan.

Gail Evans, 54, has won a Swift Eccles 560 caravan and Vango Vienna 400 awning, together worth £26,500, in a Camping and Caravanning Club competition.

Miss Evans, along with her partner, Caz, collected the prize at Highbridge Caravans in Somerset.

It was presented by Club chairman Bob Talbot following its 100 years of the caravan celebrations.

The competition ran throughout 2019 when the Club marked the centenary of the first car-towed production caravan by launching the first floating campsite on the River Thames.

The Swift Eccles 560 is a luxury caravan and tribute to the original Eccles caravan, first produced at a factory in Gosta Green, Birmingham, in 1919.

Miss Evans, who is due to complete her British Army service with the Adjutant General’s Corps in March, said: “This will be a way of life for us from this point on.

“When my service comes to an end we’re planning to travel around the UK, then Europe over the next five years.”

“I started camping in the Army – there’s not much choice but to camp there! There’s luxury…and then there’s Army camping.”

Nick Page, group commercial director at Swift Group, the manufacturer of the Swift Eccles range, said:

“I hope Gail and Caz enjoy many years of holidaying in their new home-from-home.”

For more information on Club competitions, including a new competition to win a modern Basecamp 4 Special Edition camping crossover vehicle (CCV) visit www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/competitions.