Halfway through his seven-month deployment, dad returns back from Iraq to surprise his little girls in London.

In this heartwarming clip filmed on September 27, 2017, her dad decided to hide in a box as a birthday surprise. Thinking it was gymnastic equipment, the little girl anxiously opens her gift.

Unaware it was her dad, the little girl gets the surprise of her life. She cries when discovering it was not the equipment but her dad.

The mom told Newsflare: "On 10 days R&R, we decided to put him in a box as it was our daughter's birthday the next day. She thought it was gymnastics equipment that we’d got her and thought she was getting it early."

Dad returned back from Iraq half way through his 7 month deployment. On 10 days R&R, we decided to put him in a box as it was our daughters birthday the next day. She thought is was gymnastics equipment that we’d got her and thought she was getting it early. Little did she know her dad was inside. The video is a few years old my daughters at the time were 8 and 2.