Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
... already commemorated Armistice Day with a two-minute silence.At the operational headquarters in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, the men and women of 11 Light Brigade stood still and bowed their heads.At exactly 11am local time work came to a halt as servicemen and women around the base took time out to pay their respects.At Camp Bastion, a 105mm light gun marked the beginning of the silence. From...
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | yesterday
... who sees it as his job to get out to the people rather than to twiddle his thumbs in an office in Lashkar Gah.” A favourite of the British military and development officials, Helmand’s provincial governor Gulab Mangal, has been credited for championing opium poppy replacement programmes and helping to steer parts of Helmand’s population away from the Taliban. Governor Mangal,...
Stuart King (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A bugler plays the Last Post at a Remembrance Service in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Southern Afghanistan in November 2007. Byline: SAC Kimberley Waterson RAF, Source: Army, Crown Copyright
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
From Cranmer The senior padre of Task Force Helmand, 11 Light Brigade, has said British soldiers in Afghanistan should be prepared to die in a ‘fight against the evil of fundamentalism’. Padre Mark Christian said killing ‘to defeat evil’ was ‘morally permissible’. He leads today’s Remembrance Sunday service in Lashkar Gah, where hundreds of soldiers...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The senior padre of Task Force Helmand, 11 Light Brigade, has said British soldiers in Afghanistan should be prepared to die in a 'fight against the evil of fundamentalism'. Padre Mark Christian said killing 'to defeat evil' was 'morally permissible'. He leads today's Remembrance Sunday service in Lashkar Gah, where hundreds of soldiers will gather to remember not only the fallen of past wars,...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... area on Saturday. More than 2,000 gathered on a windswept patch of open ground at the camp near Lashkar Gah, Helmand’s capital.Wreaths were laid and there was a minute’s silence after the Last Post was sounded. And then it was back to business as usual.Soldiers attended services all around the war-torn country – from CampBastion to the Forward Operating Base at Musa Qal’eh.At ...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Troops remember fallen comrades Hundreds of soldiers gathered at the main British base in Afghanistan to pay their respects to their fallen comrades.During the ceremony in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Padre Mark Christian, the senior chaplain of 11 Light Brigade, said the soldiers were there to commit themselves to "the cause of peace and justice throughout the world".About 500 men and women from numerous...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Troops remember fallen comrades Hundreds of soldiers gathered at the main British base in Afghanistan to pay their respects to their fallen comrades.During the ceremony in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Padre Mark Christian, the senior chaplain of 11 Light Brigade, said the soldiers were there to commit themselves to "the cause of peace and justice throughout the world".About 500 men and women from numerous...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
During the ceremony in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Padre Mark Christian, the senior chaplain of 11 Light Brigade, said the soldiers were there to commit themselves to "the cause of peace and justice throughout the world".About 500 men and women from numerous regiments attended the ceremony at the compound in Lashkar Gah, where wreaths were laid and a one minute silence was held after a poignant...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... base in Afghanistan today to pay their respects to their fallen comrades. During the ceremony in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Padre Mark Christian, the senior chaplain of 11 Light Brigade, said the soldiers were there to commit themselves to "the cause of peace and justice throughout the world". About 500 men and women from numerous regiments attended the ceremony at the compound in ...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
“I stand here and I grieve,” Padre Mark Christian, who led prayers at the British headquarters in Lashkar Gah, said. “I think of the pain of their passing and I think of their families. But that of itself is not what remembrance is about. When we remember we think of those seas of our comrades who have gone before us, the tens of thousands of people who have given their lives for our nation...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... he lays down his life for his friends."Ceremonies were also held at other bases in Afghanistan.At Lashkar Gah in Helmand, Padre Mark Christian, the senior chaplain of 11 Light Brigade, said the soldiers were there to commit themselves to "the cause of peace and justice throughout the world".A world away in London, under heavy grey skies, the Queen led the nation's tributes at the Cenotaph,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
By Aislinn Laing Published: 12:25PM GMT 08 Nov 2009 Soldiers from British and Coalition Forces at Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan take part in a Remembrance Sunday Photo: PA The Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were joined by grandsons Princes William and Harry and thousands of veterans and their families who assembled along Whitehall under a leaden sky. Also present were the bereaved relatives...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British soldiers and coalition forces take part in a Remembrance Sunday service, Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead, in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Britain's Defense Ministry said Sunday that a soldier from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, was killed in an explosion Saturday near Sangin in Afghanistan's central Helmand province. PA, Peter Byrne / AP Photo
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Last updated November 8, 2009 3:37 a.m. PTQueen leads Britain's Remembrance day ceremonyBritish soldiers and coalition forces take part in a Remembrance Sunday service, Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead, in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Britain's Defense Ministry said Sunday that a soldier from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, was killed in an explosion Saturday...
