Taunton soldier's bravery award (From This is The West Country)

Taunton soldier's bravery award

10:53am Friday 24th September 2010 in Somerset

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.