Sapper Clive Smith, 26, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, was injured when he stood on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) while on duty with the 33 Engineer Regiment in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand in 2010.

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The young man, a combat engineer who ferrets out and detonates land mines and roadside bombs, originally thought his duty would last nine months, but his tour has been extended to more than a year, his mother, Debra, said.

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