Taunton soldier's bravery award (From Somerset County Gazette)
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Taunton soldier's bravery award
10:53am Friday 24th September 2010 in News
A YOUNG Taunton solider is to be honoured for gallantry after he seized a Taliban leader in Afghanistan.
Rifleman Reece Terry, of the 4th Battalion the Rifles, is to receive the Queen's Gallantry Medal for Bravery.
Reece, 19, led a night-time raid in southern Afghanistan last October to capture the Taliban leader, who had killed a number of British soldiers.
he was at the head of a 100-strong force that moved through seven irrigation ditches, two belts of disused compounds and fields, all concentrated with bombs.
He was armed only with a metal detector and night vision goggles for the daring raid.
