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  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the death in Iraq of Guardsman Anthony James Wakefield during the early hours of 2 May 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Mark Stephen Dobson of B (Green Howards) Company, The Tyne-Tees Regiment, was found dead in his accommodation at Basrah Air Station on 28 March …

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the deaths of ten UK Service personnel following the loss of an RAF C-130K Hercules aircraft over Iraq on 30 January 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Sergeant Paul Connolly was found dead from a gunshot wound within the confines of Shaibah Logistic Base on 26 December 2004.

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Acting Chief Petty Officer Simon Roger Owen died while serving in HMS Chatham on 17 December 2004, while the ship was on patrol in the Gulf.

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Pita Tukutukuwaqa of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch died on 8 November 2004 when his Warrior armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside improvis…

  • 3 British soldiers were killed, and others injured, in a suicide car-bomb attack on a vehicle check point within the Black Watch area of operations on Thursday 4 November 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Staff Sergeant Denise Michelle Rose of the Royal Military Police's Special Investigation Branch was found dead from a gunshot wound at the Army bas…

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Kevin Thomas McHale of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch died in a road traffic accident in North Babil province on 29 October 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that two British soldiers died following the ambush of a military convoy south-west of Basrah on Tuesday 28 September 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Fusilier Stephen Jones died in a road traffic accident south of Al Amarah on 10 September 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Lance Corporal Paul David Trevor Thomas was killed in action in Basrah on 17 August 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Marc Ferns was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in Basrah on 12 August 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Lee Martin O'Callaghan was killed during an attack by insurgents in Basrah on 9 August 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Christopher Gordon Rayment died in a tragic accident at Al Amarah on 4 August 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Flight Lieutenant Kristian Michel Alexander Gover was killed in a helicopter accident at Basrah International Airport on the morning of 19 July 200…

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle was killed in an improvised explosive device attack on British military vehicles in Basrah on 28 June 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Corporal Richard Thomas David Ivell was fatally injured in a vehicle accident at Shaibah Logistics Base in southern Iraq on 12 February 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Sapper Robert Thomson was killed in a tragic accident in Basrah on 31 January 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that one British soldier was killed, and four soldiers injured, by an apparent suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on 28 January 2004.