It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Corporal Matthew James Stenton from The Royal Dragoon Guards and Lance Corporal Stephen Daniel Monkhouse from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday 21 July 2010.
What happened to corporal Stenton and Lance Corporal Monkhouse?
Corporal Stenton, of Viking Group, D (The Green Horse) Squadron, was commanding a Viking armoured vehicle that was part of a cordon to facilitate the exploitation of a number of IEDs and Lance Corporal Monkhouse, of Combined Force Lashkar Gah, was the gunner of a Coyote vehicle when insurgents shot and wounded a member of ISAF.
What happened to L/Cpl Monkhouse’s son?
Both soldiers were posthumously awarded one of the military’s highest honours for gallantry, the Military Cross. In the moments before L/Cpl Monkhouse died on July 21, 2010, he had been speaking of the longed-for reunion with his then three-year-old son Brandon and family and friends in Greenock.
What happened to the Scots Guards in Afghanistan?
Their son – a lance corporal, a heavy machine gunner with the 1st Battalion The Scots Guards and a drummer with its Pipes & Drums – died in Afghanistan, nearly 4,000 miles from home, shot in the neck by a Taliban fighter while trying to save a wounded comrade.
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