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OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
 


 

   
 

Royal Defense Forces, United Kingdom


A wounded British soldier is rescued after
combat from a base in Southern Iraq by
the British 33 Squadron Pumas.


Bulgarian Army soldiers carry the coffin
 containing the body of Private Gurdi Gurdiv,
30, during a ceremony at Sofia's airport.
 

 


Youngest Casualty Of British Forces In Iraq
Fusilier Kelan John Turrington, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
 

ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England -- Staff Sgt. Michael Ruhstorfer (right) and Airman 1st Class Jeremy Maples inspect the safety wire installation during the replacement of an engine temperature sensor for an MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter here recently. Both Airmen are assigned to the 352nd Maintenance Squadron.
 

TROOPS FROM AUSTRALIA


 

 


All six members of the Royal Military Police who  were killed in southern Iraq were based at Goojerat Barracks in Colchester, Essex. The soldiers were from 156 Provost Company, part of the 16th Air Assault Brigade.

British soldiers of the Light infantry and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment secure a stronghold in Az Zubayr near Basra, southern Iraq.
RMP TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ
Corporal Simon Miller, 21
Tyne and Wear
Sergeant Simon Alexander Hamilton-Jewell, 41
from Chessington, Surrey
Corporal Russell Aston, 30
Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Corporal Paul Graham Long, 24
Colchester
Lance-Corporal Benjamin John McGowan Hyde, 23
Northallerton, Yorks
Lance-Corporal Thomas Richard Keys, 20
Bala, N Wales

 







Italians soldiers set up a barbed wire
barricade after the suicide bombing.
 

British Royal Marines from 40 Commando Brigade deployed on the HMS Ocean, during a disembarkation exercise in the Kuwaiti Desert.

Sergeant Les Hehir with his sons
 

El Salvador The departure ceremony took
place at the Ilopango military airport on the
outskirts of the capital.
 

Italian soldiers at the scene of a suicide bomb that
killed 18 Italians and nine Iraqis at Italy's military
police quarters in the southern Iraq.

Four Italian soldiers, killed when an Italian
military AB 412 helicopter crashed.

 

 


Western countries have stepped up security
measures following a series of attacks on
London transport systems.
 

Iraq Army 8th Division soldiers off load from a
Polish MI8 helicopter during an Air Assault
exhibition. Camp Echo.
 

Been in Iraq almost 9 months and I have seen
the good and the bad of this war. Terrorists from
 other regions have been “pouring over the
 borders”, but certainly not for the first time.
 

El Salvador first sent troops to Iraq in August of
 2003 and the group leaving Wednesday will be
 the fourth  contingent on a six-month tour.
 

Funeral In Italy for one of the 18 Killed in Iraq.
 

American and British troops and journalists take
shelter in "Scud trenches" during an unconfirmed
Iraqi missile attack in the Kuwaiti desert.


British 105 mm guns fire super charged rounds long range during a night attack by British 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery in southern Iraq.

Australian Troops Are In Baghdad

Coalition From Japan Helping In Baghdad

Repatriation Of England's Finest
 

Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, 26, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Private Leon Spicer, also 26, and Private Phillip Hewett, 21, both from Tamworth, Staffordshire, died in a roadside bomb blast in Amara, north of Basra.

 

 


Queen's Lancashire Regiment
Captain David Martyn Jones Came from
Louth In Lincolnshire and was recently
Married before going to Iraq and was killed
in a bomb attack on a Military Ambulance.

One of six  members of the Royal Military Police who were killed in southern Iraq were based at Goojerat Barracks in Colchester, Essex.

The sad duty of the repatriation of more casualties from England

A pause before a respectful move of another casualty home to England.

Major Matthew Bacon when his armored SNATCH land rover was attacked in Basrah
City by an improvised explosive device.





 

British Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and their Challenger II tanks gather at a makeshift camp in Iraq, known as Bridge Four, just outside Basra


 

At Al Kut, US troops discovered a badly overgrown British war cemetery, the last resting place of several hundred British and Empire troops who fell during the Mesopotamian campaign in the First World War. Al Kut was the scene of much heavy fighting. On May 8, 2003, British and US personnel joined in a service of reconsecration, led by the Church of England Bishop to the Forces.
   

 

On September 4, 2003, British troops from 19 Mechanized Brigade began work to restore a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Basrah, which had suffered years of neglect and deliberate desecration under Saddam Hussein's regime. Hundreds of headstones have been destroyed and many others damaged. The soldiers, including troops from the 1st Battalion The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, based only a few hundred yards away, began the task of salvaging the surviving headstones for safe storage until the Commonwealth War Graves Commission can undertake a comprehensive reconstruction.