He was killed in action five weeks later, but only the platoon remembers his name.
Twelve-year-old Shaun (newcomer Thomas Turgoose) is mourning his dad, killed in action in the Falklands.
Lt Col Thorneloe was the highest ranking army officer to be killed in action since the Falklands War.
The 22-year-old was the fifth member of 42 Commando Royal Marines to be killed in action in Afghanistan.
Helping Unite Gold Star Survivors is a support organization for the families of Fort Hood soldiers killed in action.
On 4 November 1918 Lt Owen was killed in action near Ors, France.
Marine James Wright is the fifth member of 42 Commando Royal Marines to be killed in action in Afghanistan.
Larry Bauguess Jr. had been killed in action a few days after we taped the "Pens for Progress" story.
Private TV networks brought the booming artillery guns into living rooms, along with images of comrades honoring soldiers killed in action.
Around 20 interpreters have been killed in action, dozens more have been injured, and five others have been killed while off duty.
In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron, " was killed in action during World War I.
In Canada the route along which the bodies of servicemen killed in action are brought home has been titled the Highway of Heroes.
Pte Robert McLaren, 20, from Mull, and Cpl Sean Binnie, 22, from Belfast, were also killed in action during the tour of duty.
The UK lost 179 servicemen and women, of which 136 were killed in action, before the last British troops were withdrawn in April 2009.
Troops killed in action in Afghanistan will be the priority they are usually laid to rest within two weeks, Army spokesman George Wright said.
Three of Padraic MacKernan's uncles served with the RAF - one of them, a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber, was killed in action in 1945.
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Speicher, who was promoted to captain while he was missing, was initially declared "killed in action" on the first night of the Gulf War in January 1991.
During a six-month tour of duty, which lasted from April to October last year, seven servicemen from 3 Commando Brigade were killed in action, all from 42 Commando.
Former miner Pte Murray, of the 16th Battalion Welch Regiment, enlisted in 1914 and was killed in action at Mametz Wood at the Somme two years later aged 19.
Seventeen handlers have been killed in action since 2001, and 44 of the dogs have died in war zones since 2005, the first year for which figures are available.
Eddie Grant, a former infielder for the New York Giants and three other teams, was killed in action in the Argonne Forest in France, a month before the 1918 armistice.
The Riverbrink Art Museum is so named because it stands on the brink of the river Niagara, close to Queenston Heights, where Brock was killed in action on 13 October, 1812.
It has sustained the most deaths of any U.S. military division in Iraq, with 37 3rd Infantry Division soldiers killed in action, said a spokesman for the unit's home base at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
The president and top aides were gathered in the White House situation room to monitor the progress of the operation Sunday afternoon when the message "Geronimo EKIA" -- indicating that bin Laden had been killed in action -- was called in from Pakistan.
Mr Alexander, who is in Afghanistan, conceded it was a "challenging" message for politicians to suggest when British troops were being killed in action but said he had "confidence in the good judgement of the British people" that such a move would ultimately be beneficial.
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