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  • It is with great sadness and regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the deaths of Captain Richard John Holmes and Private Lee Ellis in Al Amarah, Iraq, on Tuesday 28 February 2006.

  • It is with great sadness and regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Trooper Carl Smith of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) on 2 February 2006, as a result of a vehicle accident whilst…

  • It is with great sadness that Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Corporal Gordon Pritchard in Iraq on 31 January 2006.

  • It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the death of Lance Corporal Allan Douglas on 30 January 2006, in Iraq. Whilst on a routine patrol in Al Amarah, Lance Corporal Douglas was shot and mortally w…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Sergeant John Jones in Basra on 20 November 2005. Sergeant Jones, from 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, died as a result of injuri…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Lance Corporal Steven Sherwood, of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry. Lance Corporal Sherwood…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Sergeant Chris Hickey of the 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards. Sergeant Hickey died as a result of injuries sustained from a roadside bomb at…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm that the body of Captain Ken Masters was discovered in his accommodation in Waterloo Lines, Basra, Iraq on Saturday 15 October 2005.

  • With great sadness and regret, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the name of a British Army Officer killed in an attack in Iraq on 11 September 2005.

  • With deepest regret, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the names of Fusilier Donal Anthony Meade and Fusilier Stephen Robert Manning, who died in Iraq on 5 September 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the deaths of Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, Private Leon Spicer and Private Phillip Hewett, all of 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment, who died from …

  • It is with profound regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of Signaller Paul William Didsbury, aged 18, of 21 Signal Regiment (Air Support), currently serving as part of the Joint Helicopter Force Iraq.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury of The King's Royal Hussars, in the early hours of Sunday 29 May 2005, during an incident to the South of…

  • 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.