Coalition casualties in Afghanistan

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As of April 26, 2008, there have been 731 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)): 425 American, 94 British, 82 Canadian, 25 German, 23 Spanish, 16 Dutch, 14 Danish, 12 French, 12 Italian, 6 Romanian, 5 Australian, 4 Polish, 3 Norwegian, 2 Czech, 2 Estonian, 2 Portuguese, 2 Swedish, 1 Finnish, 1 South Korean.

In this total, the American figure is for deaths "In and Around Afghanistan" which, as defined by the U.S. Department of Defense, includes some deaths in Pakistan and Uzbekistan[1] the death of a DoD civilian employee, and the deaths of four CIA operatives; and the Italian figure includes the death of an intelligence agent. In addition to these deaths in Afghanistan, 62 Spanish soldiers returning from Afghanistan were killed in Turkey on May 26, 2003 when their plane crashed.

On June 14, 2007, an Emirati security guard was taken hostage by the Taliban in Helmand, the Taliban originally claimed to have captured a NATO soldier.[2]

On 23 September, 2007, two Italian military intelligence personnel were kidnapped in Herat province, along with their translator and driver. The soldiers were rescued the following day by Italian and British troops in Farah province, although both captives were wounded during the raid, one gravely. The badly wounded soldier died of his wounds on 4 October, 2007[3]

During the first five years of the war, the vast majority of coalition deaths were American, but in 2006 and 2007, a significant proportion were amongst other nations, particularly the United Kingdom and Canada which have been assigned responsibility for the flashpoint provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, respectively. This is due to the fact that in 2006, ISAF, under which all non-American forces operate, expanded its jurisdiction to the southern regions of Afghanistan which were previously under the direct authority of the U.S. military.

Details regarding the fatalities

American

Of the American deaths, 292 died in hostile action and 133 in non-hostile incidents. A civilian DoD employee was killed in action while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, and is included in the final death toll. Four CIA operatives have also been killed in Afghanistan, two in an ambush, one in a notorious prison uprising in November 2001, and one in an accident. They are also included in the final death toll.

Deaths of armed American private military company personnel operating in Afghanistan are not included in the figures of this article.

The 2nd bn 503 infantry in area of combat operations such as jalalabad and FOB fortress have seen the worst The delta companie has had 26 purple hearts and 9 fatalities and 10 critically wounded in action. The FOB's in these A.O's have seen the worst offensive and defensive action by the enemy science in the Vietnam war. Secretary of the army has declared it as the fight of the army.

British

Main article: British casualties in Afghanistan since 2001

As of April 21, 2008, the British forces have suffered 91 fatalities, and upwards of 900 combat injuries of varying degree. The vast majority of fatalities have taken place since the redeployment of British forces to the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province in 2006, as only 5 men died between April 2002 and early March 2006. sixty-eight fatalities are classed as "KIA", eight as "Died of Wounds sustained from Action", twenty-six are known to have died either as a result of illness, non-combat injuries or accidents, or have not yet officially been assigned a cause of death pending the outcome of an investigation.[4]

Canadian

Main article: Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan

Canada's role in Afghanistan, consisting of operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in southern Afghanistan, has resulted in the largest number of fatal casualties for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War. A total of 82 members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and April 26, 2008. Of these, 71 were due to hostile circumstances, including 39 due to buried bombs,[5] and 11 have been due to accidents or other non-hostile causes. One Canadian diplomat has been killed due to hostile circumstances.

Danish

Denmark's first 3 deaths were the result of an accident during the disposal of a Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile in 2002. With a new mandate issued by the Danish parliament in 2006, Danish military operations have transformed from relatively safe non-combat operations in the centre of the country to combat operations alongside the British contigent in the violent Southern Helmand province. 12 soldiers have since been killed in various hostile engagements or as a result of friendly fire, bringing the number of Danish casualties to 15. This makes Denmark the country with the heaviest casualties in respect to population.

Rank, name, date and place of casualties:

  • Lance Corperal Christian Raaschou, 31. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Anders Bjørn Storgaard, 26. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Captain Christian Jørgen Grundt Damholt, 17. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Warrant Officer Second Class Sonny Kappel Jakobsen, 17. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Warrant Officer Second Class Jens Mathias Petersen, 13. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Morten Krogh Jensen, 24. February 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Mark Visholm, 29. Novenber 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Casper Alexander Cramer, 29. Novenber 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Major Anders Johan Stæhr Storrud, 16. October 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Thorbjørn Ole Reese, 26. September 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Private First Class Mikkel Keil Sørensen, 26. September 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • First Lieutenant Steen Rønn Sørensen, 3. May 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • Sergeant First Class Thomas Kruse Butzkowsky, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • Lance Corperal Kim Carlsen, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • Lance Corperal Brian Juul Nørløv Andersen, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Dutch

The first two Dutch fatalities were soldiers killed in an accidental helicopter crash in 2006. Since then, 1 pilot died in a non-hostile F-16 crash, and 1 soldier committed suicide at Kamp Holland (the main base in Uruzgan province of the Dutch Task Force Uruzgan). In 2007, 1 soldier was accidentally killed when a Patria armoured vehicle overturned at a river crossing near Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan and a further seven soldiers were killed in seven separate attacks, including a suicide bombing, at least three roadside bombings, a landmine explosion, and an accident with a mortar. In January 2008, 2 Dutch soldiers were killed in a firefight with hostile units in Deh Rawod due to friendly fire.

Estonian

In June 2007, two Estonian soldiers as part of NATO ISAF forces were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan. [1]

French

The first French casualties were two peacekeepers killed in a vehicle crash in 2004. Nine soldiers, mostly special forces, have since been killed in six hostile circumstances including two landmine detonations, an RPG attack, and a mortar attack; while another soldier has died in a vehicle accident.

German

See German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan

Italian

Four Italian soldiers have been killed in three different IED attacks, two were killed in vehicle accidents, one due to an accidental weapon discharge, one was to an unknown non-hostile death, while one died a week after being shot (either by his Afghan kidappers or his would-be Italian rescuers during a raid). Two others died in hostile fire, and a general defense staff officer was killed in an accidental airplane crash.

Polish

One soldier was killed in a hostile engagement in August 2007 and two were killed by a landmine in February 2008. One soldier soldier died of wounds as a result of an IED explosion in April 2008.

Spanish

Of the Spanish deaths, 17 were killed in August, 2005 when the Eurocopter Cougar helicopter they were travelling in crashed, four were killed in three separate attacks by insurgents, one died of a heart attack, and one died in a vehicle accident. Another 62 died in a Yak-42 plane crash in Turkey on their way back to Spain from Afghanistan.[6]

Specific incidents

  • 2002
  • On February 6, 2002 - Australian Army Sergeant Andrew Russell (Australian soldier), member of the SASR, was killed in a mine explosion
  • On March 2, 2002 - American Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley L. Harriman, of the Third Special Forces Group, March 2.2C 2002|was killed in an ambush along the road from Gardez to the Shahi Kot Valley. At least two dozen Taliban fighters were also reported killed.
  • On March 4, 2002 - Seven American Special Forces soldiers [[Operation Anaconda#March 3 and March 4, 2002 were killed]] as they attempted to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. Around 3 a.m. local time a MH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, causing a soldier to fall out and damaging a hydraulic line. The helicopter made an emergency landing a half-mile (800 m) away. A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen. The soldiers soon came under heavy fire, and six were killed. The remaining soldiers returned fire and retrieved the bodies before returning to base. Independent reports confirm between 500-1,000 Taliban and Al Qaida fighters were killed during Operation Anaconda.
  • On April 18, 2002 - Four Canadian soldiers were killed in what became known as the Tarnak Farm incident: Sgt. Marc Léger, Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, Pte. Richard Green and Pte. Nathan Smith. Eight other soldiers were wounded during a night-time live-fire training exercise near Kandahar and Tarnak Farms. The four were killed when an American F-16 fighter pilot, unaware of the exercise, noticed the ground fire and responded by dropping a bomb without determining who the combatants were. These were the first Canadian soldiers to be killed in combat since the Korean War. The pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Harry Schmidt, disobeyed an air controller's order to "stand by" while information was verified. Schmidt was initially charged by the U.S. Air Force with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 8 counts of assault. The charges were dropped in June 2003 and in July 2004 he was found guilty of dereliction of duty.
  • 2003
  • June 7, 2003 - Four German soldiers from the NATO-led ISAF died when a suicide car bomb detonated beside the vehicle they were travelling in. The explosion left another 29 Germans wounded.
  • 2006
  • April 22, 2006 - Four Canadian soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded next to their armoured G-Wagon vehicle. Two of the soldiers were members of Canada's regular army and the other two were reservists.
  • May 5th, 2006 - Two Italian soldiers were killed and 3 others wounded in an IED attack on their convoy in Kabul.[7] [8]. [citation needed]
  • May 5th, 2006 - A US helicopter crashes in Kunar province during an anti-Taliban operation. The crash kills all 10 US soldiers on board, but the crash was said not to have been caused by enemy fire according to the US Military. Several Hundred Taliban fighters were confirmed killed during the offensive, according to a NATO spokesman.
  • May 17th, 2006 - Captain Nichola Goddard, a forward observation officer from the 1st Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, was killed when her LAV III was attacked with rocket propelled grenade fire, while supporting the combat operations of the Second Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in the Panjwae District of Khandahar. She is the first Canadian female soldier to die in a combat role.
  • September 2nd, 2006 - 14 British servicemen were killed when an RAF Nimrod MR2, serving with the multinational NATO force, came down 12 miles west of Kandahar in the south of the country due to a technical malfunction. Amongst the dead were 12 RAF personnel from RAF Kinloss, one Royal Marine and an Army soldier. The 12 RAF personnel were named as: Flt Lt Steven Johnson, Flt Lt Leigh Anthony Mitchelmore, Flt Lt Gareth Rodney Nicholas, Flt Lt Allan James Squires, Flt Lt Steven Swarbrick, Flight Sgt Gary Wayne Andrews, Flight Sgt Stephen Beattie, Flight Sgt Gerard Martin Bell, Flight Sgt Adrian Davis, Sgt Benjamin James Knight, Sgt John Joseph Langton and Sgt Gary Paul Quilliam. The soldier who died was Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts from the Parachute Regiment. The Royal Marine was named as Joseph David Windall.
  • August 9, 2006 - A Canadian soldier, Jeff Walsh, 33, was shot to death by a fellow soldier during a patrol in a G-wagon armoured vehicle on an Afghan highway. A military trial on charges of manslaughter and negligent performance of duty is pending.[9]
  • August 24, 2006 - Two members of French Special Forces were killed in hostile action
  • September 20, 2006 - An Italian soldier, Alpini Corporal Giuseppe Orlando, 28, was killed and two others injured when their Puma armored vehicle overturned.
  • October 7th, 2006 - A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan, following the ignition of an explosive device and small arms fire in Panjwayi district 20 kilometres west of Kandahar city in the morning. The nationality of the soldier was not released, though there are around 2,000 Canadian soldiers based in Kandahar under NATO-led ISAF making the Canadian contingent the largest part of the ISAF in Kandahar Province.[10]
  • November 25, 2006 - An American National Guard officer, Lt. Scott B. Lundell, was killed in a firefight against Taliban rebels with small arms and rocket propelled grenades.
  • November 27, 2006 - Two Canadian soldiers were killed after a suicide car-bomber attacked a convoy of troops on the outskirts of Kandahar city. The two soldiers were in a Bison eight-wheeled armoured personnel carrier that had left Kandahar airfield minutes earlier when the civilian vehicle drove alongside and detonated explosives. [11]
  • November 28, 2006 - Two American soldiers, CPL Jeffrey G. Roberson, 22, of Phelan, Calif. and SSG Michael A. Shank, 31, of Bonham, Texas, members of the 2nd Plt Blacksheep of the 230th MP Co. were killed when a bomb blew up near their vehicle while on maneuvers in Logar, Afghanistan.[12]
  • December 5, 2006 - A British Royal Marine was killed and a second injured in a battle with Taliban fighters around Garmser in southern Afghanistan.[13]
  • 2007
  • February 27, 2007 - A South Korean Soldier was killed in a suicide bomb attack at Bagram Air Base
  • March 6th, 2007 - A Canadian soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 25 year-old reservist Corporal Kevin Megeney, was shot in the chest in his tent in a non-combat context. [14]
  • April 6th, 2007 - A Dutch soldier was accidentally killed when a Patria armoured vehicle overturned at a river crossing near Tarin Kowt, crushing him under the vehicle. Robert Donkers, 33, was from Kerkrade.[15]
  • April 8th, 2007 - Six Canadian soldiers were killed when their LAV III armoured vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device about 75 kilometres west of Kandahar city along the boundary between Kandahar province and Helmand province. Donald Lucas, 31, Aaron Williams, 23, and David Robert Greenslade, 20, were from New Brunswick. Kevin Vincent Kennedy, 20, was from Newfoundland-Labrador, and Brent Poland, 37, was from Sarnia, Ontario. Paul Stannix, 24, was a reservist from Nova Scotia.[16][17]
  • April 8th, 2007 - A roadside bomb killed one NATO soldier and wounded two others Sunday in southern Afghanistan. NATO's International Security Assistance Force has declined to give further details about the victims or where the attack took place.[18][19]
  • April 11th, 2007 - Two Canadian soldiers were killed when their light-armoured Coyote vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device about 38 kilometres west of Kandahar's city limits. Allan Stewart, 30, and Patrick James Pentland, 23, were from New Brunswick. Another blast two hours earlier injured one Canadian soldier slightly.[20][21]
  • April 11th, 2007 - An ISAF service member died of non-combat related injuries in north eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province. US soldier Edelman L. Hernandez, 23, drowned when he fell into the Korengal River in Afghanistan during a combat patrol[22][23]
  • April 12th, 2007 - Two ISAF soldiers were killed and one injured during two separate improvised explosive attacks in eastern Afghanistan. The two ISAF convoys were approximately eight kilometers apart and the strikes occurred within 30 minutes of each other. US soldiers Casey D. Combs, 28, and David A. Stephens, 28, died when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Miri, Afghanistan.[24][25]
  • April 13th, 2007 - A British soldier, Chris Gray, 19, was killed in a firefight near the town of Nawzad in Helmand province. [26][27][28]
  • April 18th, 2007 - A Canadian special forces soldier died in an accidental fall from a communications tower. The military did not give the precise time or location of the death, saying only that he was working in Kandahar city.[29]
  • April 20th, 2007 - A member of a Dutch dismounted patrol, Cor Strik, 21, from Tiger Company, a Dutch airborne infantry unit, was killed by a landmine less than two kilometres from Forward Operating Base Robinson in the Sangin River valley.[30]
  • April 20th, 2007 - A U.S. Army Paratrooper, SGT Alexander Van Alten of the 4th BCT, 82nd Airborne, died in an explosion that rocked the Forward Operating Base Robinson compound when a convoy responding to the first incident detonated another mine. Both of the explosions were said to have likely been caused by anti-tank mines.[31]
  • April 27th, 2007 - A US soldier, Michael D. Thomas, 34, was killed in engagements near the village of Parmakan in Zerkoh Valley, Herat province, Afghanistan. [32][33][34][35]
  • April 27th, 2007 - An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) servicemember was found dead in his barracks room around 4 p.m. US soldier, Daniel F. Mehringer, 20, died in Bagram of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident.[36][37][38]
  • April 28th, 2007 - An American International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier, Jeremy Greene, 24, was fatally wounded by a weapon that discharged while being cleaned by a group of soldiers at Forward Operating Base Tillman near Lawara, Afghanistan.[39][40][41]
  • May 3rd, 2007 - A British ISAF soldier, Simon Davison, 22, was killed by small arms fire while manning a checkpoint near the town of Garmsir in Helmand province.[42][43][44][45]
  • May 3rd, 2007 - Bagram Airfield - An International Security Assistance Force servicemember was found dead. The death was non-combat related.[46]
  • May 3rd, 2007 - A Danish soldier, Steen Rønn Sørensen, 24, died of his injuries in Denmark's first combat death in Afghanistan. He had been shot in the neck Sunday April 29 when Danish troops were attacked near Camp Bastion in the southern Helmand province. [47][48][49]
  • May 3rd, 2007 - A U.S. soldier, Joseph G. Harris, 19, from Sugar Land was killed by enemy fire while on guard duty at Forward Operating Base Warrior in Afghanistan.[50]
  • May 7th, 2007 - A 28-year-old Czech ISAF soldier died in a mudslide that hit his vehicle some 30 kilometres southeast of the seat of the reconstruction team of ISAF multinational forces in Faizabad, north Afghanistan.[51][52]
  • May 19th, 2007 - 3 German soldiers and a number of afghan civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kunduz province, Northern Afghanistan. 2 German soldiers were also wounded along with a dozen locals.[53]
  • May 20th, a British soldier, George Russell Davey, 23, was killed by an accidental weapon discharge at his base in Sangin.[54]
  • May 23rd a Finnish ISAF soldier, Petri Tapio Immonen, 29, was killed in a bomb blast that took place near NATO's ISAF-base located in Maimana. 2 Norwegian soldiers were wounded in the attack.[55][56]
  • May 25th, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Matthew McCully, 25, was killed when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while on a joint Afghan-Canadian patrol near a village west of Kandahar City. Another Canadian soldier and an Afghan translator were also injured in the blast that occurred in the early moments of Operation Hoover, an offensive aimed at flushing out Taliban insurgents from the Zhari district.[57][58]
  • May 26th, 2007 - A British soldier, Daniel Probyn, 22, was killed and four wounded in an explosion in an offensive operation to clear a Taliban-occupied compound on the outskirts of Garmser, in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.[59][60]
  • May 27th, 2007 - A Spanish ISAF soldier, Juan Antonio Abril Sánchez, 31, died while on patrol when the VAMTAC all-terrain vehicle in which he was travelling overturned accidentally in the Qades district of Bagdhis province, around 25 km north of the Spanish provincial construction team base (PRT) in Qala i Naw.[61]
  • May 28th, 2007 - A British soldier, Darren Bonner, 31, was killed by an explosion while on patrol.[62]
  • May 30th, 2007 - A U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down in southern Afghanistan. Five Americans along with a Canadian, Darrell Jason Priede, 30, and a British soldier, Mike Gilyeat, 28, died. [63][64][65][66] The helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. The incident occurred in the Kajaki region of southern Helmand province, where Afghan and NATO forces are trying to neutralize Taliban guerrillas and complete an important hydroelectric project.
  • June 1st, 2007 - A US officer, Lt. Col. Michael A. Robinson, 42, died in Kabul. His death is under investigation. [67]
  • June 1st, 2007 - A US soldier, Charles R. Browning, 31, was killed in Mehtar Lam, Laghman province of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy.US DoD[68]
  • June 2nd, 2007 - An American soldier, Spc. Jacob M. Lowell, 22, of New Lenox, Ill, was killed in Gowardesh when his unit came in contact with enemy force using small arms and RPGs.US DoD
  • June 5th, 2007 - An American soldier, Pfc. Timothy R. Vimoto, 19, of Fort Campbell, Ky, died from injuries sustained by small arms fire in Korengal Valley.[69]
  • June 6th, 2007 - An American soldier, Charles E. Wyckoff Jr., 28, died of wounds suffered from enemy small arms fire in Helmand province.[70]
  • June 6th, 2007 - A British soldier, Lance Corporal Paul Sandford, 23, from 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, died in a firefight in the Upper Gereshk Valley area of Helmand province, eight kilometres north east of the town of Gereshk.[71][72][73][74]
  • June 9th, 2007 - A British soldier, Neil Downes, 20, was killed and four others were wounded in an IED attack followed by a firefight outside of Sangin.[75][76]
  • June 11th, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Darryl Caswell, 25, of the Royal Canadian Dragoons based in Petawawa, Ontario, was killed when his light-armoured Coyote vehicle hit an improvised explosive device 40 km north of Kandahar. Two fellow soldiers received non-life threatening injuries.[77][78]
  • June 15th, 2007 - A Dutch ISAF soldier, Timo Smeehuijzen, 20, was killed by a suicide car bombing in Tirin Kot in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan. The car was driven out of a side street and detonated near a Dutch armoured car in a NATO convoy, also killing four Afghan men and five children.[79][80]
  • June 15, 2007 - An American soldier, Arthur L. Lilley, 35, was killed in combat in Paktika province, in eastern Afghanistan. American forces make up the bulk of coalition troops in the area.[81][82]
  • June 16, 2007 - A US-led coalition soldier was killed when his vehicle was struck by an RPG while on combat operations in Uruzgan province. Three Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the engagement. The nationality and identity of the soldier has not yet been released but could correspond with the change in the number of American deaths reported between June 9 and June 16th. [83][84][85][86]
  • June 17, 2007 - 3 American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter are killed by a roadside bomb in the south of the country.[87]
  • June 15, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Jos Leunissen, 44, was killed and three others wounded in an accident while fighting Taliban soldiers near the town of Chora. The soldier was apparently killed by one of the Dutch mortar grenades that were fired by his own unit but exploded sooner than expected.[88]
  • June 20, 2007 - 3 Canadian soldiers, Stephen Frederick Bouzane, 26, Joel Vincent Wiebe, 22, and Christos Karigiannis, 31, were killed when their open-topped vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb at around 8 a.m. local time while ferrying supplies between checkpoints. The explosion happened about six kilometres west of Sperwan Ghar, a hilltop outpost southwest of Kandahar city in the Panjwai district.[89][90]
  • June 23, 2007 - 2 Estonian soldiers, Kalle Torn, 24, and Jako Karuks, 33, were killed while on a mine clearing mission near Sangin by a 107-mm missile attack that also injured four other soldiers.[91][92]
  • June 24, 2007 - A British soldier, Thomas Wright, 26, was killed and four others wounded when their Land Rover WMIK was hit by a roadside bomb in the Babaji area near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province.[93][94]
  • June 30, 2007 - A British soldier, Sean Dolan, 40, was killed by a mortar round in a clash with Taliban fighters near the village of Qaleh-e-Gaz, near Sangin in Helmand province.[95][96][97]
  • July 1, 2007 - A British soldier, Dave Wilkinson, 33, was killed when his vehicle was blown up in a massive enemy ambush as a British patrol left a base in the town of Gareshk, in the southern Helmand province.[98][99]
  • July 4, 2007 - 6 Canadian soldiers, Jordan Anderson, 25, Cole Bartsch, 23, Colin Bason, 28, Matthew Dawe, 27, Jefferson Francis, 25, Lane Watkins, 20, and an Afghan interpreter riding in an RG-31 Nyala armoured vehicle were killed by a powerful roadside bomb in the Panjwai area southwest of Kandahar.[100][101][102]
  • July 12, 2007 - A British soldier, Daryl Hickey, 27, died of gunshot wounds received while his unit was providing covering fire for an assault on a Taliban position near Gereshk in Helmand province.[103]
  • July 13, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Tom Krist, 24, died in hospital of the wounds he sustained three days earlier in a suicide bomb attack in Deh Rawod, Uruzgan province on July 10.[104]
  • July 23, 2007 - Six NATO forces died in various attacks, including a roadside bombing in the eastern part of the country that claimed four lives. Of the soldiers' nationalities only that of a Norwegian has been released.
  • July 23, 2007 - Norwegian Army Ranger Command lieutenant Tor Arne Lau-Henriksen, 33, was killed in a short and intense close quarters engagement between a Norwegian special forces reconnaissance patrol and hostile fighters in Lowgar Province.[105] [106]
  • July 31, 2007 - An American officer, 1st Lt. Benjamin J. Hall, 24, of Virginia, died in Asadabad, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit during combat operations in Chowkay Valley, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy.[107]
  • July 25, 2007 - A French soldier, Pascal Correia, 40, was killed in a rocket attack on Afghan army quarters southwest of Kabul in the province of Warduk where he was training a unit of the Afghan army.[108]
  • July 25, 2007 - A British soldier, Alex Hawkins, 22, died in an explosion while travelling in a Vector patrol vehicle on the outskirts of Sangin in Helmand province.[109]
  • July 26, 2007 - A British soldier, David Atherton, 25, was shot after firing an anti-tank missile at suspected Taliban militants.[110]
  • July 27, 2007 - A British soldier, Barry Keen, 34, was fatally wounded when a single mortar round landed next to him near the village of Mirmandab in southern Afghanistan.[111]
  • July 29, 2007 - A British soldier, Michael Jones, 26, was killed during a special operation against the Taleban in southern Afghanistan. He was the 68th member of the British armed forces to die in Afghanistan since the UK joined the US-led invasion.[112][113]
  • August 10, 2007 - A British soldier, Tony Rawson, 27, was killed in a firefight near the southern town of Sangin when his patrol was attacked by small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades.[114]
  • August 14, 2007 - A Polish, soldier, Lukasz Kurowski, 28, was killed in an exchange of fire some 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of a base in the city of Gardez.[115]
  • August 15, 2007 - Three German police officers were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in was blown up by an IED on a road to Jalalabad, not far from Kabul.[116]
  • August 19, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Simon Longtin, 23, was killed after the LAV III armoured vehicle he was travelling in struck an improvised explosive device(IED) roughly 20 kilometres west of Kandahar City on a well-travelled supply route.[117]
  • August 22, 2007 - Two Canadian ISAF soldiers, Christian Duchesne, 34, and Mario Mercier, 43, and an Afghan interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in the Zhari district about 50 km west of Kandahar. A third soldier and two journalists were also injured in the blast that hit their LAV III armoured vehicle. They were part of a patrol that was returning from a combat mission in which a strategic hill near the town of Mas'um Ghar was seized from the Taliban following fierce battle.[118][119]
  • August 23, 2007 - Three British soldiers, Aaron McClure, 19, Robert Foster, 19, and John Thrumble, 21, were killed by American "friendly fire" in an area north-west of Kajaki, Helmand Province. A bomb apparently dropped by an American F15 fighter jet called in for air support killed them and seriously wounded two other British soldiers.[120][121]
  • August 23, 2007 - A French soldier, Stéphane Rieu, 30, was killed when his light-armoured vehicle overturned on a road near Shakar Darreh.[122]
  • August 26, 2007 - A Dutch ISAF soldier, Martijn Rosier, 30, was killed by a roadside improvised explosive device near the town of Deh Rawod in southern Uruzgan province.[123][124]
  • August 29, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Raymond Ruckpaul, 41, died of a gunshot wound about an hour after he was found injured in his room at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul. An investigation concluded his death from a gunshot wound was a suicide.[125][126]
  • August 30, 2007 - A British soldier, Christopher Bridge, 20, and an interpreter died after their routine patrol at Kandahar airfield was struck by an explosion.[127][128]
  • September 5, 2007 - Two British soldiers, Ben Ford, 18, the youngest British soldier to die in Afghanistan so far, and Damian Wright, 23, were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb during a routine patrol 8 miles north of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. A third soldier and a civilian interpreter were wounded in the blast.[129][130]
  • September 6, 2007 - A Romanian soldier, Aurel Marcu, 31, was killed and several others injured when their armored transport vehicle hit a roadside bomb while on patrol in the southern province of Zabul.[131][132]
  • September 6, 2007 - A second NATO soldier, name and nationality as yet unreleased, was killed in another explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, September 6, 2007.[133][134][135]
  • September 6, 2007 - An American soldier, Mykel F. Miller, 19, died of wounds suffered while his unit was engaged in combat in Zabul Province.[136]
  • September 8, 2007 - Two British soldiers, Craig Brelsford, 25, and Johan Botha, 25, were killed in a heavy firefight in Helmand province. [137][138]
  • September 8, 2007 - A German soldier, name unreleased, was found dead at his barracks in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan.[139]
  • September 17, 2007 - A British soldier, Ivano Violino, 29, died after the Army dump trunk he was commanding was hit by an explosion in Helmand province.[140][141][142]
  • September 20, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Tim Hoogland, 21, was killed about 5 km north of the town of Deh Rawod in western Uruzgan province when his patrol came under mortar fire.[143][144]
  • September 20, 2007 - Two British soldiers, Phillip Newman, 36, and Brian Tunnicliffe, 33, were killed in a road accident when their vehicle went off the road and overturned in Gereshk, Helmand province. They were part of a two-vehicle "replenishment patrol" to resupply troops taking part in a 2,500-soldier operation aimed at forcing the Taliban out of the upper Gereshk valley.[145]
  • September 21, 2007 - A French soldier, Laurent Pican, 34, was killed in a suicide car bomb attack against a French military convoy in the western part of the capital, Kabul.[146][147]
  • September 23, 2007 - An American soldier, Matthew D. Blaskowski, 27, was killed in a small arms fire attack in eastern Afghanistan.[148]
  • September 24, 2007 - Two Spanish soldiers, Stanley Mera Vera, 20, and Germán Pérez Burgos, 33, and an interpreter were killed in a roadside bombing in Shewan, Farah province. Six others were injured, two of them seriously.[149]
  • September 24, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Nathan Hornburg, 24, a reservist, was killed and four others wounded in a mortar attack while fixing the track on a Leopard tank approximately 47 km west of Kandahar City in the Panjwai district.[150]
  • September 26, 2007 - Two Danish ISAF soldiers, Mikkel Keil Sørensen, 24 and Thorbjørn Ole Reese, 22, were killed and another wounded when their base was attacked for several hours in the Upper Gereshk Valley of Helmand province. An investigation is underway to determine whether they were killed by "friendly fire".[151][152][153]
  • October 4, 2007 - An Italian intelligence agent, Lorenzo D'Auria, 33, died of wounds sustained during a September 27 rescue operation by ISAF/Coalition troops. On September 26, D'Auria and a compatriot were kidnapped in Herat Province.[154].
  • October 4, 2007- A British officer, Major Alexis Roberts, 32, was killed in a roadside bombing west of Kandahar, making him the highest-ranking British officer to die in Afghanistan since operations started nearly six years ago.[155]
  • October 8, 2007 - An Australian soldier, David Pearce, 41, was killed in a roadside bombing in Uruzgan province.[156]
  • October 16, 2007 - A Danish officer, Major Anders Storrud, 34, died in Helmand province of wounds sustained in mortar attack the previous day.[157]
  • October 25, 2007 - An Australian Special Air Service Regiment sergeant, Matthew Locke, was killed by a shot to the chest while leading a foot patrol in pursuit of Taliban fighters on the first day of an operation to clear them out of the Chora Valley in Uruzgan province. He was the third Australian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan.[158][159][160]
  • November 3, 2007 - During operation "Spin Ghar" a Dutch corporal, Ronald Groen, 21, was killed, two others were injured. Their armoured Fennek reconnaissance vehicle hit an IED (improvised explosive device), 5 miles north-east of their base in Poentjak Uruzgan province. [161]
  • November 8, 2007 - Norwegian Home Guard soldier Kristoffer Sørli Jørgensen, 22, was killed and one other soldier, 20, severely wounded when the unarmoured Toyota Landcruiser they were driving was hit by an IED near the Norwegian base at Maymana. Both were from the town of Stange in Norway.[162] [163]
  • November 9, 2007 - Five US Army soldiers died of wounds sustained when their footpatrol was attacked by direct fire from enemy forces in Aranus, Afghanistan, on Nov 9. They were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy. Killed were 1st Lt. Matthew C. Ferrara, 24, of Torrance, Calif. and Spc. Sean K. A. Langevin, 23, of Walnut Creek, Calif. who died Nov 9 and Sgt. Jeffery S. Mersman, 23, of Parker, Kan., Spc. Lester G. Roque, 23, of Torrance, Calif. and Pfc. Joseph M. Lancour, 21, of Swartz Creek, Mich., who died Nov 10. [164]And one Marine Sgt. Phillip A. Bocks, 28, of Troy, Mich., died . He was assigned to Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif.[165]
  • November 9, 2007 - A British soldier, Jake Alderton, 22, died after the vehicle he was travelling in rolled off a bridge near the town of Sangin in Helmand province. Another soldier and an interpreter were injured. No enemey action was involved.[166]
  • November 10, 2007 - Staff Sgt. Patrick F. Kutschbach, 25, of McKees Rocks, Pa., died Nov. 10 in Bagram, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered in Tagab, Afghanistan, when his vehicle was struck by a rocket propelled grenade and small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Stuttgart, Germany.[167]
  • November 12, 2007 - Two American soldiers, Capt. David A. Boris, 30, of Pottsville, Pa., and Sgt. Adrian E. Hike, 26, of Callender, Iowa, were killed Monday near Bermel in eastern Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Both were members of 1-91’s Troop A deployed out of Schweinfurt, Germany. Boris, a 1999 West Point graduate. Boris and Hike were the fourth and fifth members of 1-91 killed since the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, of which the squadron is a part, deployed on a 15-month assignment in May.[168]
  • November 13, 2007 - 2nd Lt. Stuart F. Liles[169], 26, of Hot Springs, Ark., died Nov. 13 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 122nd Aviation Support Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. The incident is under investigation.[170][171][172]
  • November 14, 2007 - A British soldier, John McDermid, 43, was killed by an improvised explosive device while leading a joint UK and Afghan army operation in Sangin, Helmand province.[173][174]
  • November 17, 2007 - Two Canadian ISAF soldiers, Nicholas Raymond Beauchamp, 28, and Michel Levesque, 25, and an Afghan interpreter were killed in the volative Zhari district when their light armoured vehicle, or LAV, hit a roadside bomb on a narrow road about 40 kilometres west of Kandahar city just after midnight. Three other soldiers in the vehicle were also wounded. They had been involved in a "targeted security operation".[175][176]
  • November 23, 2007 - An Australian, Private Luke Worsley, 26, a commando from the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (Commando), was killed in a raid on a Taliban IED factory 10 kilometres east of Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan. There were no other Australians killed or wounded.[177]
  • November 24, 2007 - An Italian soldier, Daniele Paladini, 35, and six civilians were killed when a bomber who had strapped explosives around his body detonated himself near the troops' convoy in Kabul's western Paghman district. The suicide attack also injured three other Italian soldiers and nine civilians.[178]
  • November 24, 2007 - A Portuguese soldier, Sergio Pedrosa, 22, died at a military hospital in Khost, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when his Humvee accidentally rolled over during an overnight convoy in southern Wardak province.[179]
  • November 29, 2007 - Two Danish privates, Casper Alexander Cramer, 21, and Mark Visholm, 22, were killed in hostile actions in the Helmand Green Zone. The two privates were a part of the Danish light recce squadron which were securing the perimeter of a bridge construction site. During an hour long firefight the two privates were fatally wounded.[180] [181]
  • December 4, 2007 - A British soldier, Jack Sadler, 21, was killed and two British soldier injured by an improvised explosive device in Helmand Province.[182]
  • December 8, 2007 - A British soldier, Lee Johnson, 33, was killed and another soldier injured by an improvised explosive device near Musa Qal’eh, Helmand.[183]
  • December 9, 2007 - An American soldier, Cpl. Tanner J. O’Leary, 23, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Musa Qal’eh. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C..[184][185]
  • December 11, 2007 - An American soldier, Staff Sgt. Gregory L. Elam, 39, died Dec. 11 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 54th Quartermaster Company, 49th Quartermaster Group, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).[186]
  • December 12, 2007 - Two American soldiers, Staff Sgt. Michael J. Gabel, 30, and Cpl. Joshua C. Blaney, 25, died Dec. 12 at Forward Operating Base Curry in Afghanistan from wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. The soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Camp Ederle, Vicenza, Italy.[187]
  • December 24, 2007 - An American soldier, Senior Airman Nicholas D. Eischen, 24, died Dec. 24 in Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 60th Medical Operations Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.[188]
  • December 30, 2007 - A Canadian ISAF soldier, Jonathan Dion, 27, was killed and four other soldiers injured when their LAV light armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb shortly after 9 a.m. as they left a forward operating base in the Zhari district for the Kandahar Air Field to spend the New Year's. Even as the roadside bomb exploded, other Canadian soldiers were executing Operation Winter Storm Sunday, searching villages for Taliban fighters. Jonathan Dion was the 30th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan in 2007 and the 74th since Canada's involvement in 2002.[189]
  • December 31, 2007 - An American soldier, Pfc. Brian L. Gorham, 21, died Dec. 31 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of wounds suffered on December 12 in Afghanistan when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Camp Ederle, Vicenza, Italy. [190]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ U.S. Defense Department. "Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) U.S. Casualty Status.",
  2. ^ Reuters. Foreign soldier missing in Afghanistan from UAE.
  3. ^ USWarWatch. Afghanistan Text Archive - October 2007
  4. ^ U.K. Ministry of Defence. Operations in Afghanistan: British Fatalities
  5. ^ Campion, Bruce (September 29, 2007). "Taliban's deadliest weapons lie in wait". TheStar.com
  6. ^ thinkSPAIN "Spanish soldier killed in Afghanistan accident "

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