Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeAn eleventh soldier from a single infantry battalion that saw some of the Army’s worst combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has ­taken his own life. Fellow soldier Ste Nichols, who runs a veterans’ support group, told us: “Whenever the phone rings I think it’s another one. In Afghanistan, more soldiers were killed or wounded in action in 2009 than in any other year. “I had to deal with guys getting killed, blown in half, double amputees. Although the deaths were self-inflicted, coroners have ruled some of the soldiers and veterans may have died by misadventure.

Source: Daily Mirror May 30, 2021 07:10 UTC