Australian special forces soldier killed

The 25-year-old Australian special forces soldier killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan was a leader with a "great sense of personal integrity", his former teacher says.

Signaller Sean McCarthy was killed in a bomb blast while conducting vehicle patrols in an area believed to be occupied by the Taliban. Two other Australian soldiers were also hurt.

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Polish officer, 2nd Lt. Robert Marczewski

2nd Lt. Robert Marczewski

On 20th June 2008, Second Lieutenant Robert Marczewski, was among a military convoy in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives at them.

2nd Lt. Marczewski was killed by the blast.

He served with the Polish 6th Airborne Assault Battalion, based in Gliwice.

Hungarian Sergeant, Gyula Kovacs

Sgt. Kovacs

Hungarian Army Bomb-disposal expert, Sergeant 1st-class Gyula Kovacs, aged 30, was killed as he was attempting to defuse a roadside bomb and the device exploded.

The incident happened in Baghlan province on 10th June 2008.

Sgt. Kovacs was a member of the Hungarian Provincial Reconstruction Team, Hungarian Army.

He was posthumously promoted from Sergeant to Sergeant First Class.

BBC Journalist, Abdul Rohani

Abdul Samad Rohani

An Afghan journalist working for the BBC in the country's southern Helmand province has been found shot dead.

Abdul Samad Rohani had been abducted and his body was found on 7th June 2008 in Lashkar Gah. 

Rohani worked with the BBC Kabul bureau and was the Pashto service reporter for the BBC World Service in Helmand.

Estonian soldier dies in accident

An Estonian non-commissioned officer who sustained heavy injuries in an accident in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on the evening of May 23rd died in hospital in the night.

Sgt. Major Ivar Brok

Sgt. Maj. Ivar Brok, 30, serving in the support unit NSE-5 of the Estonian contingent in Afghanistan, sustained life-threatening injuries in an accident that happened in the course of loading works at the Camp Bastion base, the General Staff here reports. Brok was loading equipment of the infantry platoon ESTCOY-6 onto trucks when a wheel of a Pasi armoured personnel carrier escaped and rolled on him. Such a wheel weighs several hundred kilograms.

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.

Czech Republic list of military fatalities

Czech Republic military fatalities since 2001.

Date	Name	Rank	Age	Unit	Cause
09-Oct-11	Werner, Adrian	Sergeant	32	2 OLMT	Hostile fire
31-May-11	Vyroubal, Robert	Sergeant	31		Hostile: IED
30-Apr-08	Radim Vaculik	CWO	29	102 Reconnaissance	Hostile: IED
17-Mar-08	Milan Sterba	Lieutenant	35	Special Operations Grp	Hostile: IED
03-May-07	Nikolaj Martynov	Sergeant	28	43rd Airborne	Vehicle accident

Czech soldier, Radim Vaculik, killed by IED

The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic has confirmed the death of a Czech soldier - a member of PRT Logar, Afghanistan - on Wednesday 30 April, 2008.

28-year-old Radim Vaculik died after an improvised explosive device burst up under the HMMWV vehicle used by the Czech contingent serving at the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar, Afghanistan.

Four other Czech soldiers were injured, one of them seriously. All soldiers were transported to the American Field Hospital at Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, for immediate treatment.

Australian Commando, L-Cpl Jason Marks, killed in action

Lance Corporal Jason Marks, 27 years of age from Sydney, was killed during a gun-battle in the early hours of Monday, 28 April when Australian soldiers were engaged by Taliban extremists using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

Lance Corporal Jason Marks

 Read full press release at Australian Department of Defence

Dutch Army Lieutenant Dennis Van Uhm

Dutch Army officer, Lieutenant Dennis Van Uhm, aged 23, was killed by the blast of a roadside bomb while on patrol in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, on 18th April 2008.

Lt. Van Uhm was a platoon commander serving with the 45th Armoured Infantry. His father is a General with the Dutch military.

Dutch Pfc. Mark Schouwink

Dutch Private 1st Class Mark Schouwink, aged 22, was killed on 18th April 2008 from the blast of a roadside bomb in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, while on patrol.

Pfc. Schouwink served with the 45th Armoured Infantry based in Ermelo.

Polish Private 1st Class, Grzegorz Politowski

Pfc Grzegorz Politowski

Private 1st Class, Grzegorz Politowski, aged 28, was killed 8th April 2008 when a roadside bomb was detonated against his patrol in Ghazni province.

Pfc Politowski was from Golczewo in Poland and served with the Polish 5th Engineering Regiment.

Danish soldier, Christian Raaschou, killed in battle with Taliban

Christian Raaschou

Danish soldier, Christian Raaschou was killed during a battle with Taliban insurgents on 31st March 2008. He was 24 years old and was a Private First Class with the Danish Royal Life Guards.

This was his 5th International deployment having previously served in Iraq.

His mechanized infantry unit was on a co-ordinated operation with British forces northeast of Gereshk when they came under fire. He died as he was being airlifted by helicopter to the field hospital at Camp Bastion.

Danish Guard, Pvt Anders Storgaard, killed in gun battle with Taliban

Private Anders Storgaard

Private Anders Storgaard, serving with the Danish Royal Life Guards, was killed in action on 26th March 2008 in a battle with Taliban insurgents involvoing small arms fire, mortars and RPGs. 

As the battle intensified, the Danish unit of 35 men was reinforced with artillery and helicopter gunships. 

Private Storgaard and one other soldier were injured in the battle. As they were being airlifted to Camp Bastion field hospital, Private Storgaard died from his wounds.

Suicide bomb kills two Danish soldiers

Sergeant Sonny Jakobsen

Captain Christian Damholt

Two Danish soldiers lost their lives on 17th March 2008 in a suicide bomb attack on a NATO military convoy.

Sergeant Sonny Jakobsen, 45, (pictured above left) and Christian Damholt, a Captain aged 33 (pictured above right) were part of a Danish unit patrolling the city of Gereshk in Helmand province, alongside British and Afghan troops.

Several other soldiers were injured in the blast.