Rifleman Paul Jacobs: Soldier receives George Medal after being without eyes by Taliban bomb

By Laura Roberts 800AM GMT twenty March 2010

Rifleman Paul Jacobs with his fiancee Louise Smith Photo PA

Commended for his "sheer personal aplomb and extraordinary determination" after the on Aug twenty he will embrace the George Medal - presented for "acts of aplomb not in the face of the enemy".

After one explosve exploded Rifleman Jacobs attempted to move his colleague"s physique back. He was afterwards held by a second IED but managed to draw towards himself to a "safe route" in sequence for his comrades to pick up him.

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Rifleman Jacobs, 21, attended the rite yesterday with his fiancee Louise Smith, 24, who he met whilst she was operative as a healthcare partner at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.

He pronounced "Receiving this is a great thing and a bad thing. It honours the men who died but it will regularly be a sign of what happened. I did what I could but they done the idealisation sacrifice."

Miss Smith, who functions with severely harmed infantry at the Birmingham hospital, pronounced she was won over by his clarity of humour. "He solemnly done an sense on me. He"s regularly joking, he never stops," she said.