WOMBWELL soldier Sam Stocks played a part in the arrest of three suspected Iraqi rebels and the uncovering of large amounts of enemy weapons.
The 20-year-old, a member of the 1st Battalion The Light Infantry, helped form an armed cordon as specialist search teams swooped on houses and shops in the Al Quibla area of Basra.
Sam, who is 6ft 4ins and a former pupil at sandhill primary school and Darfiled Foulstone, only arrived in Iraq about three weeks ago. He said: "It was exciting to be out on an operation so soon after arriving in the war theatre. We had to make sure the team got to the right place at the right time and gout out rapidly.
This kind of task is what we have been training for and it allwent smoothly."
