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| Cpl. Matthew Stenton |
Corporal Matthew James Stenton from The Royal Dragoon Guards was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday 21st July 2010.
He was part of combined force of soldiers from the Royal Dragoon Guards and the 1st Battalion Scots Guards who were providing security for the building of Route Trident in Basharan, north of Lashkar Gah.
Cpl. Stenton, was commanding a Viking armoured vehicle that was part of a cordon to facilitate the exploitation of a number of IEDs when insurgents shot and wounded another soldier.
He manoeuvred his vehicle in order to lay down fire and extract the casualty. As he was doing this, he was shot and killed by small arms fire.
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