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Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Tributes to the five soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday have been made by their families and colleagues. Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford and Guardsman James Major, all of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, as well as Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, both of the Royal Military Police, were killed on Tuesday 3 November...
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Fitaloon at MicroShaft (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
ributes to the five men killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday 3rd November were posted here by the MOD. Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford and Guardsman James Major, all of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, as well as Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, both of the Royal Military Police, were killed on Tuesday 3 [...] Related posts: Roll...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The family of one of the soldiers killed by an Afghan policeman described him as a “wonderful lad who loved his job”.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... determination and a real love of his family".A colleague from the Grenadier Guards, Sergeant Matthew Telford, died in the same incident. His funeral is due to take place in Grimsby today.
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Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, of the Grenadier Guards, lost his life alongside four others when they were shot earlier this month.London: West End hit Hairspray is to pioneer a device which could transform theatre trips for overseas visitors by giving real-time translations.The musical is the first to use Airscript, a wireless handheld screen which allows the audience to follow the script...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
In drizzling rain, thousands stood in silence as the bodies of Sergeant Matthew Telford and Guardsman Jimmy Major were brought home. Sergeant Telford, 37, and Guardsman Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards died with three other soldiers when they were shot by a rogue Afghan policeman earlier this month. A lone piper played a lament as members of the Royal British Legion lowered...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Thousands packed the streets of Grimsby as the bodies of Sergeant Matthew Telford and Guardsman Jimmy Major were brought home. Under cloudy skies and drizzling rain relatives of the two men joined veterans, shoppers and civic dignitaries for the solemn event. As the cortege passed outside the Town Hall it paused to allow the grieving relatives an opportunity to throw flowers on the hearses...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... seeing through their mission in the war zone.Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40; Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37; and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18; from the Grenadier Guards, died alongside Cpl Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.Two days later, Serjeant Phillip Scott, 30, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed by an improvised explosive...
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... below from left to right) are:- WO1 Darren Chant, 40, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - Sgt Matthew Telford, 37, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - Gdn Jimmy Major, 18, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - Cpl Steven Boote, 22, Royal Military Police - Cpl Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, Royal Military Police - Sjt Phillip Scott, 30, 3rd Battalion The Rifles The Ministry of Defence has also released...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... last week and a sixth who died in an explosion. Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, all from the Grenadier Guards, died alongside Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military police, when an Afghan police officer opened fire on them in Helmand province. Sergeant Phillip...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... town. Added to the list after the shooting were Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40; Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37; and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards, who died alongside Corporal Steven Boote, 22; and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police. They were shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan police officer at a secure checkpoint...
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Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From the UK’s Guardian: Clockwise from top left: Sergeant Matthew Telford, Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, Warrant Office Darren Chant and Guardsman James Major, killed in a Helmand province gun attack. Policeman who killed British troops ‘is back with Taliban’ By Jon Boone and Matthew Weaver November 6, 2009 The gunman who killed five British soldiers in an...
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Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... and his men who would continue to take the fight to the Taliban. Sgt Maj Darren Chat, 39, Sgt Matthew Telford, 39, Guardsman James Major, 18, together with Royal Military Police Corporals Steven Boote, 22, and Nicholas Webster, 24, all died last Tuesday after being shot dead inside an Afghan Police Compound known as Blue 25. A further six were injured in the attack. Col Walker said...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Relatives of servicemen killed this week by a rogue Afghan policeman tell of their pain The wife of one of the British soldiers killed by an Afghan policeman has said she does not know how to tell her son his father will not be coming home. Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, from Grimsby, was one of five military personnel killed on Tuesday when an Afghan policeman being mentored by the British...
