Jersey soldier injured in Taliban bomb attack

Tuesday 4th August 2009, 3:00PM BST.

L/Cpl Phil Le Gros

A JERSEY soldier is recovering after being seriously injured in a roadside bomb attack while on foot patrol in Afghanistan.

Lance-Corporal Phil Le Gros suffered a broken jaw and a perforated eardrum as well as shrapnel wounds to his upper body.

He was released from a military hospital in Birmingham yesterday after being treated for wounds he sustained in the ambush by militants on 23 July.

L/Cpl Le Gros, who now lives in Sheffield but hails from St Ouen, is a Territorial Army soldier.

He was on foot patrol with colleagues in Helmand Valley when he sustained injuries to his upper body and head from the improvised explosive device.

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