A grieving father whose son died alongside the most senior soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has called on the Prime Minister to resign. Peter Hammond said Gordon Brown was either lying or incompetent when he insisted that a shortage of helicopters had not led to British deaths. Mr Hammond, whose teenage son Josh died alongside Lt Col RupertThorneloe, said: 'Brown's either a liar...
Lt Col RupertThorneloe, 39, warned military chiefs and the MoD that troops would die because the lack of choppers forced them to make trips by road A month later Lt Col RupertThorneloe, head of 1 Battalion the Welsh Guards, was blown up by a roadside bomb.
Lt Col RupertThorneloe, the most senior British soldier killed in Afghanistan, had complained about a helicopter shortage just weeks before his death. Andrew Thomas reports.
Lt Col RupertThorneloe, the most senior British soldier killed in Afghanistan, had complained about a helicopter shortage just weeks before his death. Andrew Thomas reports.
... for more than 80 per cent of recent British and Nato casualties.Before dying, Lieutenant Colonel RupertThorneloe, the most senior British officer to die in Afghanistan, complained about his soldiers having to risk road moves because of the shortage of aircraft. (ANI)
Among those remembered were Lieutenant-Colonel RupertThorneloe, of the Welsh Guards, the most senior British officer to have died in action since the Falklands conflict, and Trooper Joshua Hammond, of the Royal Tank Regiment, who was aged 18 when he was killed in the same explosion as Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneloe on July 1.
Remember the email from the late Lieutenant Colonel RupertThorneloe complaining about a lack of helicopters in Afghanistan? Well, I'm going to tell you a secret. The existence of the email was first disclosed in the Daily Mail.
The beginning of July also saw the death in Afghanistan of the most senior British officer to be killed since the Falklands War, Lieutenant Colonel RupertThorneloe, the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
Peter Hammond, father of Trooper Joshua Hammond who died in Afghanistan alongside Colonel RupertThorneloe has called on Gordon Brown to resign. In his statement he said Brown’s either a liar or hasn’t a clue about what’s going on. He should do the right thing and quit It was revealed within the past few days that Colonel Thorneloe [...]
... foreshadowed his own death in a damning memo about the shortage of helicopters. Lieutenant Colonel RupertThorneloe told his superiors that British troops would die because they were being forced to make trips by road. Less than a month later, he was blown up by a roadside bomb. In his final despatches to commanders in London, classified 'Nato Secret', he had dismissed helicopter...
... conservative newspaper which has a strong animus against the Labour government, says that Lt. Col RupertThorneloe, commander of a battalion of Welsh Guards who died in an IED attack on July 1, in effect "foreshadowed his own death." The paper said that in a June 5 weekly message to British Defense Ministry HQ, Lt. Col. Thorneloe reported that, because of the helicopter...
• RupertThorneloe feared soldiers would die because they were being forced to travel by road • Defence secretary says 'improvements are ongoing' The most senior British soldier to die in Afghanistan foreshadowed his own death by warning that a shortage of helicopters was endangering troops. Less than a month before he was killed by a roadside bomb, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert...
"I'll Just Do My Tommy Cooper Impression For You..." Lt. Colonel RupertThorneloe, the most senior ranked casualty in Afghanistan, in dispatches to his superior officers on June 5 2010 ; words to the effect that British troops would die because they were being forced to travel by road instead of by air, making them easy targets for the Taliban. Dead 3 weeks later due to being...
The most senior British officer to be killed in Afghanistan RupertThorneloe, who commanded the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, had warned about the risks posed to his troops by a shortage of helicopters. It has emerged that Lt Col Thorneloe, killed by a roadside bomb in July, had written to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) warning that a lack of helicopters meant that too many trips...
