PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
FATALITIES IN AFGHANISTAN (No. 8) (26 May 2015)

That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces who served in Afghanistan and records
with sorrow the deaths of Private John Howard, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged
23, from Wellington, New Zealand, Guardsman Christopher Davies, 1st Battalion Irish Guards,
aged 22, from St Helens, Merseyside, Ranger Aaron McCormick, 1st Battalion The Royal Irish
Regiment, aged 22, from Coleraine in County Londonderry, Senior Aircraftsman Scott 'Scotty'
Hughes, 1 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment, aged 20, from North Wales, Sapper William
Bernard Blanchard, 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal),
aged 39, from Gosport, Hampshire, Corporal David Barnsdale, 33 Engineer Regiment, aged 24,
from Tring, Sergeant Peter Anthony Rayner, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment,
aged 34, from Bradford, Rifleman Suraj Gurung, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 22,
from Gorkha in Nepal, Corporal Matthew Thomas, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers,
Sergeant Andrew James Jones, Royal Engineers, aged 35, from Newport, South Wales, Trooper
Andrew Martin Howarth, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 20, from Bournemouth, Kingsman
Darren Deady, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 22, from Bolton, Captain
Andrew Griffiths, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 25, from Richmond,
North Yorkshire, Lance Corporal Joseph McFarlane Pool, The Royal Scots Borderers 1st
Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 26, from Greenock, and Lance Corporal Jordan
Dean Bancroft, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 25, from Burnley.

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