Will Pike
Hostile faces in Sangin. © Private Marc Holmes
Private Neil Edwards, Lance Corporal Noel Brooksbank, and
Private Marc Holmes and Alistair Hartley in a Sangin sangar.
© Private Marc Holmes
Lance Corporal Paul Roberts, Corporal Stuart Giles, Sergeant Brian
Reidy and Medical Officer Captain Harvey Pynn.
© Sergeant Dan Jarvie
Soldiers doss down on the floor at the Sangin district centre. ©
Private Marc Holmes
Corporal Mark Wright in the Sangin compound.
© Captain Nick French
Lieutenant Any Mallet leads a patrol into Sangin town centre.
© Corporal Andrew Waddington
Sergeant Dan Jarvie. © Crown copyright
Major Will Pike, OC ‘A’ Company. © Crown copyright
Captain Martin Taylor. © Major Will Pike
WO2 Zac Leong. © Captain Martin Taylor
Captain Matt Taylor. © Lieutenant Martin Hewitt
SECOND PLATE SECTION
Captains Alex Mackenzie and mate Piers Ashfield having a brew at
Sangin. © Lieutenant Martin Hewitt
Corporal Jay Jackson on stag in Sangin. © Corporal Dave Salmon
Regimental Sergeant Major John Hardy.
© Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal
Lieutenant Ollie Dale gets his head down in Sangin.
© Corporal Dave Salmon
The Pathfinders at Musa Qaleh. © Nick Wight-Boycott
Sergeant Major Mick Bolton in front of the Sangin district centre.
© Captain Euan Goodman
A mortar section at Sangin fires in support of patrols on the
ground. © Captain Euan Goodman
A Chinook takes off from Sangin under fire. © Corporal Carl Tees
Private Pete McKinley recovering from shrapnel wounds in the
base hospital. © Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal
Corporal Bryan Budd on patrol in Sangin. © Captain Hugo Farmer
Rifleman Nabin Rai after a contact with Taliban in Now Zad.
© Major Dan Rex
Major Huw Williams, Captain Nick French and a signaller at Musa
Qaleh. © Captain Martin Taylor
A .50-cal heavy machine gun inside a well-reinforced sangar at
Sangin. © Major Jamie Loden
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal in the desert near Musa Qaleh.
© Captain Nick French
Heading out to the helicopter landing site after a successful
resupply operation at Musa Qaleh. © Crown copyright
‘Giving the Taliban the good news’. Watching an air strike go in
outside Musa Qaleh. © Crown copyright
Sergeant Christopher ‘Freddie’ Kruyer. © Staff Sergeant Pete Joiner
Dinner at Bastion. © Crown copyright
Major Adam Jowett, OC of Easy Company, chats with local elders.
© Gaz Faulkner
Captain Hugo Farmer on patrol in Gereshk in full kit.
© Captain Emma Couper
Private Dave Prosser and other members of Mortar Platoon.
© Sergeant Freddie Kruyer
A shura in Sangin.
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Afghanistan
Helmand Province
Sangin
Gereshk
Musa Qaleh
Now Zad
At about 8 a.m. on the morning of 6 September 2006 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal rolled out of his cot, pulled on his uniform and boots and set off along the duckboard walkway to catch up on overnight events.
The sun was already high and a pale, malevolent haze hovered over the talcum-powder dust of the Helmand desert. He reached
