A HEROIC soldier killed by a Taliban suicide bomb in Afghanistan is to be remembered on a war memorial.
Rifleman James Brown, aged 18, from Orpington, died when two suicide bombers drove towards a checkpoint on a route into central Sangin in northern Helmand in December.
The terrorists had planned to detonate their lethal device at a nearby market but instead detonated it at the checkpoint, killing both Rifleman Brown and fellow soldier Lance Corporal David Leslie Kirkness, aged 24.
Both men were from the 3 RIFLES Reconnaissance Platoon.
Rifleman Brown will have his name on one of eight plaques surrounding the Orpington War Memorial, which remembers those who died in “Other Conflicts”.
Work is due to be completed before the remembrance ceremonies in November.
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