Maj Collins (L) and L/Sgt Burgan were pronounced to epitomize a excellent qualities of their regiment
Two soldiers from 1st Battalion Irish Guards killed in Afghanistan usually 6 days before they were due to lapse home have been named.
Maj Matthew Collins, 38, from Backwell, in Somerset, and L/Sgt Mark Burgan, 28, from Liverpool, died on Wednesday [...]
The bodies of five British soldiers who died in Afghanistan within a week of each other have been repatriated.
Pte Lewis Hendry and Pte Conrad Lewis were shot on 9 February.
Pte Robert Wood and Pte Dean Hutchinson died in a fire and L/Cpl Kyle Marshall was killed in an explosion on 14 February.
They were flown into [...]
Staff Sgt Schmid, born in Cornwall, lived in Winchester with his five-year-old stepson and wife.
Christina Schmid said: “Oz was a phenomenal husband and loving father who was cruelly murdered on his last day of a relentless five-month tour.
“The pain of losing him is overwhelming. I take comfort knowing he saved countless lives with his hard [...]
It is with regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Ranger David Dalzell, of 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, was killed on 4th February 2011 as a result of an operational accident while working in Check Point RANGER in Nad-e Ali, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Ranger Dalzell was 20 years-old and came from Bangor [...]
The UK government has always maintained a stance that they will not bargain with hostage takers. I have often wondered if this would remain the case if a high profile person such as the Prime Minister or a member of the British Royal Family were captured. This does not mean that I disagree with their [...]
A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The soldier was from The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, serving as part of the Brigade Reconnaissance Force.
The blast happened in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province on Sunday. The soldier’s family [...]
At least 40 people were killed Tuesday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Iraqi army recruiting centre in Baghdad, officials were quoted by local media as saying.
At least 100 people were also injured in the blast which appeared to be targeting mostly soldiers, police and new recruits.
Further details were not immediately [...]
Rifleman Remand Kulung was on look-out when the helicopter hit his sentry post
The soldier died after a helicopter hit the look-out post in Afghanistan where he was keeping watch, it has emerged.
Rifleman Remand Kulung, 27, from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died from his injuries in a Birmingham hospital on Thursday.
Two days earlier, a Chinook hit [...]
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