Point Man Led Teams of Soldiers, Struggled to Heal

Soldier who struggled after suffering terrible injuries in Afghanistan roadside bomb blast found dead
Mirror UK
By Paul Britton
20 February 2015

Bradley Paul's grieving family and friends now want to raise awareness of stress and depression being faced by serving and former military personnel

Private Paul was deployed to Afghanistan with the infantry battalion in September 2012, just two months before the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast.

He was a ‘point man’ who led teams of soldiers with a metal detector, checking for deadly hidden devices in the ground planted by the Taliban.

The sudden detonation and subsequent explosion happened at a river crossing after Private Paul had led a team of soldiers to a base to collect supplies. No one else was injured.

Family Memories: Bradley Paul and his mum Sam doing a charity skydive

A soldier who struggled to come to terms with life after he recovered from terrible injuries he suffered in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan has been found dead at home.

Bradley Paul, a hugely-respected private with the 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, was 23 when he died last week.

Now his grieving family and friends want to raise awareness of stress and depression being faced by serving and former military personnel.

The bomb blast in 2012 in Helmand Province severed an artery in his neck and left him with multiple bone fractures.

He was airlifted back to the UK within 48 hours and treated at a specialist military hospital in Birmingham before he was transferred to the Headley Court rehabilitation centre, where he spent more than 12 months battling back to fitness.
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