HE will be on duty in the front line in Afghanistan.

But come 3pm on Saturday and Cpl Gary Webster’s thoughts will be many, many miles away from Camp Bastion.

He will be wishing he was at the Galpharm Stadium to see Town take on Walsall.

It’s an historic game for two reasons – giving Town the chance to equal the Football League record for unbeaten games at 42 and giving the club the chance to raise tens of thousands of pounds for Help for Heroes, which aids wounded troops.

Saturday’s game has been chosen by the club to back the charity and the team will be wearing a special one-off shirt. It is mainly white with the Help for Heroes colours of red and blue worked into a chevron.

Cpl Webster, 33, who comes from Oakes, has already got one of the special edition shirts, posted out to him in Afghanistan by his mate and fellow Town fan Robert Taylor.

The pair, who met at Reinwood Junior School, were ballboys at the old Leeds Road stadium for three years and have been devoted fans ever since.

Cpl Webster, who joined the Army 11 years ago, is a veteran of the Iraq war, serving out there in 2003.

He is normally based in Germany with the 35 Royal Engineers, where he lives in Paderborn with wife Mandy and daughters Hannah, 11, and Leah 8.

Mandy said: “It’s his first tour in Afghanistan and he’s working on Operation Talisman, clearing roads of IEDs and bombs.