1 Trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, was killed on July 1 by a roadside bomb while travelling in a Viking armoured vehicle near Lashkar Gah. He enlisted in the Army when he was 16 and went to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. He studied to become a Challenger 2 tank driver and was deployed to Afghanistan last month. He died a week before his 19th birthday. He leaves a fiancée.

2 Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, 39, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed in the same Viking as Trooper Hammond. He was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1992 and served on operations in Northern Ireland. He spent a year as an intelligence liaison officer with the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch in South Armagh and was also Military Assistant to the Defence Secretary.

He took command of the Welsh Guards in October last year. He loved playing polo, as well as sailing and game-shooting, and was praised as a superb commanding officer. He leaves a widow, Sally, and two daughters, Hannah and Sophie.

3 Private Robert Laws, 18, of the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at his vehicle on July 4. He came from Bromsgrove and started his career at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate before going to the Catterick training centre. He won a “best shot” honour on the light machinegun.

4 Lance Corporal David Dennis, 29, of The Light Dragoons, was killed by a roadside bomb north of Lashkar Gah. He was responsible for maintaining communications with tactical headquarters. He had just helped to secure a helicopter landing site for the extraction of casualties when he was killed. He joined the Army in February 2003 as a gunner in the Royal Artillery but applied for a transfer to The Light Dragoons in 2006 after six months with them in Iraq. He leaves a fiancée, Lisa.

5 Lance Corporal Dane Elson, 22, of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards was killed by a roadside bomb in Babaji, north of Lashkar Gah, on July 5. He was a specialist operator of the shoulder-launched Javelin missile. He was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, but his family now live in Bridgend, South Wales. He had served in Iraq and Bosnia and was promoted to lance corporal during training for Afghanistan.

6 Captain Ben Babington- Browne, 27, of 22 Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers died in a helicopter crash in Zabul province on Monday. Two Canadian soldiers died with him. He grew up in Maidstone, attended Sandhurst and joined 22 Engineer Regiment in April 2007. He showed exceptional leadership qualities during a tour of Iraq in 2007 and was viewed as a rising star.

7 Trooper Christopher Whiteside, 20, of The Light Dragoons, was killed by a roadside bomb near Gereshk on Tuesday. He was born in Blackpool and was known to his friends as “Norm” — after the former footballer Norman Whiteside. He joined the Army in July 2005 as an infanteer in the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment but was discharged after suffering a serious knee injury. He joined again, this time with The Light Dragoons, in March 2008, and was on his first tour of Afghanistan.

8 A soldier from The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was shot dead near Lashkar Gah, Helmand on Thursday. He has not yet been named by the Ministry of Defence.

9 A roadside bomb explosion near Nad-e-Ali, in central Helmand province killed a soldier from the 4th Battalion The Rifles on Thursday.

10 Another roadside explosion near Nad-e-Ali killed a soldier from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment yesterday morning only a few days after his 18th birthday.

Five more soldiers were killed in two separate blasts on the same patrol, the MoD said last night. The soldiers, from the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, were killed near Sangin, Helmand Province. The ministry is withholding details until the soldiers’ families have been informed.

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