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Royal honour for Shropshire soldier injured in Afghanistan
Wednesday 24th November 2010, 8:30PM GMT.
Corporal Ricky Furgusson
A heroic Shropshire soldier horrifically injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan will receive a Military Cross medal for bravery from the Queen next month, it was revealed today.
Corporal Ricky Furgusson will attend Buckingham Palace on December 7.
The soldier, from the 4th Battalion The Rifles, lost both legs, an eye and fingers on both hands in a bomb blast in January.
He was awarded the Military Cross – given for “an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy” – for going four times to the aid of wounded soldiers injured by improvised explosive devices out in Afghanistan.
The 25-year-old, from Stirchley in Telford, said he remembered helping his comrades but had no recollection of the blast or the five weeks which followed.
He initially spent 17 weeks at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, and is now learning to walk again on prosthetic legs.
Today Corporal Furgusson’s father, Paul, said: “We will all be going to the palace as a family on December 7 and we are all looking forward to it.”
In October Corporal Furgusson returned to home to a street party at his house in Telford where more than 20 neighbours and well-wishers turned out to see him and hung out buntings and flags for his return.
Corporal Furgusson, who is married to Tracy, has said he has no intention of looking back on what happened and will instead look to the future.
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