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| Written by Kev |
| Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:06 |
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2010
July 9 - A 23-year-old soldier, a member of the First Mentoring Task Force, killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Oruzgan Province.
June 21 - Private Tim Aplin, 38, Private Ben Chuck, 27, and Private Scott Palmer, 27, all members of the Sydney-based 2nd Commando Regiment (formerly the 4RAR), killed in a helicopter crash in Kandahar province.
June 7 - Sapper Jacob Moerland, 21, and Sapper Darren Smith, 25, from Brisbane-based 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment, killed in explosion of insurgent improvised explosive device (IED).
2009
July 19 - Private Benjamin Ranaudo, 22, from the 1st battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), killed in explosion of IED in the Baluchi Valley, north of Tarin Kowt.
March 19 - Sergeant Brett Till, 31, a specialist explosive ordnance disposal officer from the Holsworthy-based Incident Response Regiment, killed while trying to defuse a roadside bomb in Oruzgan Province.
March 16 - Corporal Mathew Hopkins, 21, a member of the mentoring and reconstruction taskforce, from 7RAR, killed in firefight with Taliban north of Tarin Kowt.
January 4 - South African-born Private Gregory Michael Sher, 30, a reservist from the Sydney-based 1st Commando Regiment, killed in rocket attack in Oruzgan Province.
2008
November 27 - Lieutenant Michael Fussell, 25, from 4RAR Commando Battalion, killed in IED blast in Oruzgan Province.
July 8 - New Zealand-born Signaller Sean McCarthy, 25, from Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) killed by IED blast.
April 27 - Lance Corporal Jason Marks, 27, from 4RAR Commando battalion killed in firefight with Taliban fighters in Oruzgan Province.
2007
November 23 - Private Luke Worsley, 26, from 4RAR Commando Battalion killed in firefight with Taliban fighters in Oruzgan Province.
October 25 - SASR Sergeant Matthew Locke killed in firefight with Taliban insurgents in Oruzgan Province.
October 8 - Trooper David Pearce, 41, from 2/14 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) killed in IED blast in Oruzgan Province.
2002
February 16 - SASR Sergeant Andrew Russell, 33, killed when his vehicle struck a landmine in southern Afghanistan.
Courtesy the SASR Association Queensland
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