News Source: ITN
| 2 months ago
Corporal John Harrison, 29, of the Parachute Regiment, was killed in a pre-dawn operation on September 9 to rescue Stephen Farrell, a reporter with the New York Times. His body has been flown to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, alongside Kingsman Jason Dunn-...
News Source: Times Online
| 2 months ago
Serjeant Paul McAleese, 29, of the 2nd Battalion the Rifles, was caught in a bomb blast on August 20 as he went to help a comrade who was fatally injured in an earlier explosion. Stephen Minter, Serjeant McAleese's father-in-law, wrote to Gordon...
News Source: Sky News
| 2 months ago
His father-in-law, Stephen Minter, told Gordon Brown: "Because of you I now have a 26-year-old daughter with no husband and a five-month-old grandson with no father." Mr Minter's letter, reprinted in The Sun , said the family was "extremely angry"...
News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
A British serviceman was killed on Wednesday when he was caught in an explosion in the Gereshk district of southern province of Helmand. Another UK soldier wounded in a blast in Helmand died in a UK hospital the same day. The deaths bring to 216 the...
News Source: United Press International
| 2 months ago
Three U.S. soldiers died in southern Afghanistan after being hit by a roadside bomb blast, the U.S. military said...The latest casualties raised to 22 the number of U.S. troops killed this month in the escalating Taliban violence in Afghanistan.
News Source: The Scotsman
| 2 months ago
A soldier from 2nd Battalion The Rifles was killed when he was caught in a blast while on foot patrol in the Gereshk district of Helmand province yesterday afternoon. Another soldier, from 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, died in a UK hospital from injuries...