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From Times Online
May 3, 2008

95th British soldier dies in Afghanistan

Dominic Tobin

A British soldier has been killed and three others injured after their armoured vehicle hit a mine in Afghanistan.

The four members of the Household Cavalry were in the Nowzad area of northern Helmand province when their vehicle was blown up on Friday afternoon. The blast also injured an Afghan national.

The men, who belong to the same regiment as Princes William and Harry, were protecting a routine patrol in their Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle.

They were taken to a field hospital at Camp Bastion, the British headquarters in Helmand, where one man was pronounced dead on arrival. His three fellow soldiers are described as walking wounded.

The soldier is the 95th member of the armed forces to have died in Afghanistan since Britain began fighting there in 2001. His family have been told.

The men are understood not to have been deployed with Harry, who had to cut short his tour of Afghanistan as a forward air controller in February after news of his mission was leaked.

The previous soldier killed in Afghanistan — Trooper Robert Pearson, 22, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, a soldier in the Queen’s Royal Lancers — also died when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

They are parà Italian of the Ffolgore Brigade a slid winter I was to Herat to north of Kandhar… I hope that the things for your boys put for the best… my condolences for your dead men… as it says a our song is in sky a classified place to the soldiers

Normanno, Livorno, Italy

I'm sorry but those brave men shouldn't have been in vehicles designed in the early seventies and no longer fit for purpose! Future heirs to the throne would never be put into one of those machines and sent out on patrol, I wonder why?? Get rid of those Spartans, Mastiffs are needed now!

Graham, St. Albans, uk

God bless the poor young man
may he go to heaven

robert sanders, birkenhead,

Poor young soldiers have all died in vain. What a loss.

jayil, london, uk

Sadly, this is the 95th fatal casualty. How many have suffered appalling and crippling wounds I wonder? There is no end to this, the people of Afghanistan don't want Westerners invading and installing puppet Governments and, sadly, they will continue to make it clear as our casualty figures rise.

Neil, Gloucestershire, England

Another member of our Guards family lost:


Septem Juncto in Uno.

Thinking of his family

An old Foot Guardsman.

Wills, Soton, Uk

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