Fatalities named in Afghanistan

The British Army's 40th fatality in Afghanistan has been named as Luke McCulloch by the Ministry of Defence:

Lance Corporal McCulloch was part of a force of a hundred soldiers from 1 R IRISH currently serving in Helmand Province as part of the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment Battle Group. Both 1 R IRISH and 3 PARA are part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which is the lead British Military Formation in Southern Afghanistan.
A further three soldiers were injured in the attack and are being treated at a medical facility.

In Iraq, Gunner Lee Thornton has been named as the 118th fatality in that theatre. His commanding officer said,

This has been a very sad week for the Battery for they had already lost two soldiers killed in a roadside bomb on Monday, where a further soldier was seriously wounded. It was typical of Gunner Thornton that he volunteered to participate in the very next patrol which went out after the attack a day earlier. This gesture of defiance by Lee and his colleagues was aimed at the people who perpetrated the first attack. He showed no hesitation in driving out of the security of the Shaibah Logistics Base and facing the ever-present threat to British soldiers in Iraq.