WOUNDED soldier Matthew Light is hoping to be back home in Yorkshire by tomorrow.
Pte Light, 19, arrived back in Britain on Friday after a gruelling 18-hour journey from Afghanistan to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Matthew, son of Kirklees Conservative leader Clr Robert Light, was then transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by road.
His family – father Robert, mother Sharon and younger sisters Rebecca and Jessica – were reunited with him at 9pm that night.
Clr Light said: “It was very emotional and such a relief for us to see him and for Matt to see us.
“It has been a very emotional 10 days, very hard to put into words. We are all relieved to have him back in the UK and Matt is very grateful to be back on home soil.”
