09-16-2006
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County Executive
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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Member Since: Feb 2005
Location: California
Posts: 382
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Re: The Iraq Page, RIP soldiers
 
Lee Darren Thornton
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Blackpool Today -- Gunner Lee Thornton, from Marton, was part of a 20-strong patrol training Iraqi troops north of Basra, when he came under attack.
The 22-year-old suffered a fatal gunshot wound.
Gunner Thornton was airlifted to a British army base in Germany following last Tuesday's attack. He died two days later surrounded by his family.
Speaking to The Gazette from Basra, Captain Laurence Roche, spokesman for the 20th artillery battery, said the body of the former Palatine High school pupil was due to be flown back to the UK in the next week.
He added the soldiers serving in the 58 (Eyres) Battery, 12th Regiment Royal Artillery, who had been involved in the fatal ambush were coping "remarkably well under the circumstances".
Cpt Roche said: "Gunner Thornton had volunteered to go on the patrol the day after two of his colleagues were killed in another ambush. He was that kind of soldier.
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Rest in peace Lee.
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