Guardsman David Watson, who is being treated in Birmingham for injuries caused by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan three years ago, described the announcement as "fantastic".
Richard Wolfe, the hospital's chief of emergency medicine, said the man had multiple injuries from what appeared to be both an explosive device and gunshot wounds.
In April last year, Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in a UK hospital from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in the Nahr-e Saraj area.