Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Another soldier killed in Afghanistan


Shot soldier is named as bomber kills 17 at market

By Michael Evans, Defence Editor - The TIMES - 29/8/06

THE latest British military fatality in Afghanistan has been named as Lance Corporal Jonathan Hetherington of 14 Signal Regiment.
The 22-year-old soldier, who had also fought in Iraq, was killed by Taleban forces in the southern province of Helmand.

He was the 21st British soldier to die in Afghanistan since 2001 and the 8th to die in Helmand this month.

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