Tuesday just gone, a fellow Trooper from 2Sqn, of the Honourable Artillery Company was killed by a roadside explosion in southern Afghanistan whilst serving with 4/73 Special Observation Battery, Brigade Reconnaissance Force. I didn’t know him but he joined about 9 months before I left the regiment.
MoD news bulletin here. BBC article here. Read from his friends on Facebook here.
21 years old. What a bloody waste.