PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
FATALITIES IN AFGHANISTAN (No. 17) (26 May 2015)

That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces who served in Afghanistan and records
with sorrow the deaths of Guardsman Christopher King, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged
20, from Birkenhead, Liverpool, Captain Daniel Shepherd, 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, aged 28, from Lincoln, Corporal Joseph Etchells, 2nd
Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 22, from Mossley, Rifleman Aminiasi Toge,
2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 26, from Suva, Fiji, Corporal Jonathan Horne, 2nd Battalion The
Rifles, aged 28, from Walsall, Rifleman William Aldridge, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18,
from Bromyard, Herefordshire, Rifleman James Backhouse, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18,
from Castleford, Yorkshire, Rifleman Joe Murphy, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18, from Castle
Bromwich, Birmingham, Rifleman Daniel Simpson, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 20, from
Croydon, Corporal Lee Scott, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 26, from King's Lynn, Private John
Brackpool, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 27, from Crawley, West Sussex, Rifleman Daniel
Hume, 4th Battalion The Rifles, Trooper Christopher Whiteside, The Light Dragoons, aged
20, from Blackpool, Captain Ben Babington-Browne, 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers,
aged 27, from Maidstone, Lance Corporal Dane Elson, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 22,
from Bridgend, Lance Corporal David Dennis, The Light Dragoons, aged 29, from Llanelli,
Wales, Private Robert Laws, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 18, from Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe MBE, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion
Welsh Guards and Trooper Joshua Hammond, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 18.

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