![]() On Behalf Of Grateful Nations. A Soldier is not Dead until they are Forgotten... ![]() Photographs A Page Of Life A Look Without Dates
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![]() 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.
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![]() Youngest Casualty Of British Forces In Iraq Fusilier Kelan John Turrington, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
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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
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![]() 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. |
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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
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![]() 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.
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![]() 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.
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![]() 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. |
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British Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and their
Challenger II tanks gather at a makeshift camp in Iraq, known as Bridge
Four, just outside Basra
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| 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. |
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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. |
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