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Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung from the Royal Gurkha Rifles, serving with 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed on Friday, 27 January when his foot patrol to disrupt insurgent activity came under small arms fire in the Khar Nikah region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province.

Squadron Leader Anthony Downing of the Royal Air Force died of his wounds on Friday, 23 December after the vehicle in which he was travelling was caught in an explosion south of Kabul, in Afghanistan on Thursday, 22 December Captain Tom Jennings of the Royal Marines died after the vehicle in which he was travelling was caught in an explosion south of Kabul, in Afghanistan on Thursday, 22 December Lieutenant David Boyce and Lance Corporal Richard Scanlon, from 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, were killed when their armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device while on patrol in the Yakchal region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of central Helmand on Thursday, 17 November Private Matthew Haseldin, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was killed by a gunshot wound when his patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, came under attack on Thursday, 3 November Rifleman Vijay Rai, 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, was killed by a gunshot wound when the checkpoint that he and his team were protecting in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, came under insurgent small arms fire on Saturday, 15 October Lance Corporal Kyle Cleet Marshall, from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, was killed when an IED exploded while he was deployed on an operation to reassure and provide security for the population in an area in the south of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Monday, 14 February The soldiers were deployed on an operation to reassure the local population and provide security in the Nad 'Ali District of Helmand province.

Warrant Officer Class 2 Company Sergeant Major Colin Beckett of 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment was killed in Afghanistan on the morning of Saturday 5 February when he was fatally wounded by an improvised explosive device which detonated as he was moving into position to cover his fellow patrol members.

Private John Howard, from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 5 December when he was fatally wounded during an action against insurgents operating in Lashkar Gah.

Rifleman Suraj Gurung from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles was killed during a follow-up foot patrol after an attack on his patrol base on Saturday 2 October Corporal Matthew Thomas from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was killed when the vehicle he was driving in was struck by an improvised explosive device in the Garmsir district of Helmand province on Saturday 25 September He was mortally wounded and died at Camp Bastion Role Three hospital.

Bombardier Stephen Gilbert from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery died in hospital in Birmingham on Saturday, 26 June from wounds sustained in Afghanistan as the result of an explosion on the afternoon of Thursday, 10 June Sergeant Steven William Darbyshire, 40 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Sangin, was killed by small arms fire during a firefight with insurgent forces in the Sangin district of Helmand province on Wednesday, 23 June Lance Corporal Barry Buxton died on Monday, 3 May , after sustaining injuries in an accident alongside the Nahr-e Bughra canal as a result of the vehicle he was commanding rolling into the canal when the road collapsed.

Fusilier Jonathan Burgess from1st Battalion The Royal Welsh was killed as a result of gunshot wounds following a small arms engagement in the Nad 'Ali area of Helmand province on Wednesday, 7 April Guardsman Michael Sweeney from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards was killed as a result of an explosion that happened in the Babaji district of central Helmand province on Thursday, 1 April Rifleman Daniel Holkham from 3rd Battalion The Rifles was killed as a result of an explosion which occurred in an area east of Sangin district centre in Helmand province during the afternoon of Saturday, 27 March Serjeant Steven Campbell, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, 22 March as a result of an improvised explosive device which detonated while he was patrolling around 3km south of Sangin district centre.

Rifleman Liam Maughan of 3rd Battalion The Rifles died from wounds received as a result of small arms fire near Sangin, in Helmand province, during the morning of Saturday, 6 March Rifleman Jonathon Allott of 3rd Battalion The Rifles died from wounds received as a result of an explosion which occurred near Sangin, in Helmand province, during the morning of Friday, 5 March Sergeant Paul Fox from 28 Engineer Regiment, attached to the Brigade Reconnaissance Force, was killed by an improvised explosive device while on a foot patrol in southern Nad 'Ali, Helmand province, on Friday, 26 February Lance Sergeant Dave Greenhalgh, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was killed when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, near Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, on Saturday, 13 February Kingsman Sean Dawson from 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was killed as a result of small arms fire sustained during a contact with enemy insurgents in the Musa Qal'ah district of Helmand province on Sunday, 14 February Sapper David Watson from 33 Engineer Regiment Explosive Ordnance Disposal died of wounds sustained in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device on Thursday, 31 December in the vicinity of Patrol Base Blenheim in the Sangin region of Helmand province.

Rifleman Aidan Howell of 3rd Battalion The Rifles was killed as a result of an explosion that happened near Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge in the Kajaki area of Helmand province during the afternoon of 28 December Lance Corporal Tommy Brown from The Parachute Regiment was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, 22 December as a result of a suspected improvised explosive device blast while on a foot patrol about 1km south of Sangin in central Helmand province.

Acting Sergeant John Paxton Amer of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards died from wounds sustained as a result of an explosion that happened in the Babaji area of central Helmand province on 30 November Rifleman Andrew Ian Fentiman from 7th Battalion The Rifles was killed as a result of small arms fire whilst on a foot patrol near Sangin in central Helmand province during the morning of 15 November The spokesperson added that it would be inappropriate comment on the specifics of the case at this time but that the department is taking all necessary steps under UK GDPR.

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