Lest We Forget

Five members of the County Down-based 2nd Battalion The Rifles died in two explosions near Sangin, Helmand.

They were: Cpl Jonathan Horne, and Riflemen Joseph Murphy, Daniel Simpson, William Aldridge and James Backhouse.

A 2nd Royal Tank Regiment corporal killed in an explosion near Nad Ali was named as Lee Scott, a 26-year-old father-of-two, from Norfolk.

Four more Nato soldiers, all of them American, were killed by roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.

Lt Col Robert Thomson, commanding officer of 2 Rifles, said it had been a “grim day” in Sangin as they honoured their dead.

Full Story at the BBC