British Army Private Gareth Bellingham

British Army Private Gareth Leslie William Bellingham, serving with 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords), was killed by enemy gunfire in the Gereshk Valley, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Saturday 18th June 2011.

His unit was conducting a patrol to assess the situation on the ground and meet with the local population who had recently returned to compounds in the area. During the patrol, a local Afghan was injured by an Improvised Explosive Device (homemade bomb). As Private Bellingham's unit was providing security, insurgents fired upon the patrol and he was fatally wounded.

He had been in Afghanistan since April 2011.

His parents, Leslie and Suzanne said of their son: “Gareth died doing the job he loved and we are all proud of the job he did. He will be sadly missed by family, friends and all those who knew him. Rest in peace”

U.S Army Corporal Donald R. Mickler Jr

Cpl. Mickler

U.S Army Corporal Donald R. Mickler Jr., aged 29, from Bucyrus, Ohio, died 19th March 2011 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when he was allegedly shot with small arms fire by an individual from a military security group. 

He was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

The incident is under investigation. More to follow.

U.S Army Pfc Rudy A. Acosta

Pfc. Rudy Acosta

Pfc. Rudy A. Acosta, aged 19, from Santa Clarita, California, died 19th March 2011 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when he was allegedly shot with small arms fire by an individual from a military security group. 

He was a Combat Medic, assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.He deployed to Afghanistan in June 2010.

The incident is under investigation. More to follow.

Australian soldier, Jamie Larcombe, killed in action

Jamie Larcombe and partner, Rhiannon

An Australian soldier and Afghan interpreter have been killed in Afghanistan overnight.

Defence Force Chief Angus Houston said that the pair had been shot and despite immediate first aid, could not be saved.

The incident happened during an unpartnered patrol in an area to the south-east of patrol base Wali.

The Australian casualty is 21-year-old Sapper Jamie Ronald Larcombe, a South Australian from a Darwin regiment.

It's understood to be the second death from the same regiment in as many weeks.

Read more

Read Jamie's family tribute

Leave your own tribute to Jamie

Lance Sergeant Dale Alanzo McCallum

Dale McCallum

Lance Sergeant Dale Alanzo McCallum of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 1st August 2010.

Lance Sergeant McCallum, who was serving as part of Combined Force Lashkar Gah, was killed by small arms fire whilst commanding his men in an operation to provide security for local Afghan nationals in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.

At approximately 1320 hours, the sangar at his checkpoint came under effective enemy fire from insurgent forces. Lance Sergeant McCallum quickly moved to the sangar and as he was moving into a position to engage the insurgents he received a fatal gunshot wound.

British soldier, Lance-Corporal Stephen Monkhouse

Stephen Monkhouse

Lance Corporal Stephen Daniel Monkhouse, from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday 21st July 2010.

L-Cpl. Monkhouse was providing security for the building of Route Trident in Basharan, north of Lashkar Gah. He was the gunner of a Coyote vehicle when insurgents shot and wounded another soldier.

He was providing fire support in order to allow the evacuation of the wounded soldier. Tragically, as the casualty was being extracted, Lance Corporal Monkhouse was killed by small arms fire.

British Dragoon Guard, Corporal Matthew Stenton

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.

Lithuanian soldier, Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius

Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius

Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius, died 22nd May 2008.

Motorized Infantry Battalion of Lithuania.

Aged 34, he was serving with NATO ISAF forces in Ghor province, western Afghanistan.

He and at least two Afghan civilians were killed when hundreds of rock-throwing protesters tried to break into an airfield base in Chaghcharan in protest over an American soldier's use of the Koran for target practice in Iraq. 

Other soldiers, Afghan police and civilians were wounded in the incident. The soldier was killed by gunfire, but it was unclear if the shots came from the crowd, Taliban insurgents or security forces. 

The area is remote and it was impossible for media to independently verify what had happened.