The Queen's Gurkha Signals
marked their 50th anniversary
while deployed to provide strategic
communications support in
Baghdad. They were joined for the
celebration by Major-General McColl
and former Gurkhas working in Iraq
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The celebration allowed a father
and his two sons to meet for the
first time in six years. Former
Warrant Officer Hariya Tamang
is now a security adviser in Iraq,
and was able to meet his sons
Corporal Dugendra Tamang (left)
and Sapper Tamba Tamang
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An attack by Sad'r militia on a
British military patrol on 17 September
which wounded one soldier prompted
a response operation by troops from
the Cheshire and Princess of Wales'
Royal Regiment, plus TA troops from
the London Regiment against the
Sad'r offices
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Some of the equipment seized
at the Sadr offices; explosive ordnance
disposal teams had first to dismantle
several booby-traps left behind by
the militia when they fled the building
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The Civil-Military Cooperation
House in Al Amarah is handed back
to the Iraqi police as part of the
continuing transfer of assets and
responsibilities from the Coalition to
the Iraqi authorities
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Saga al-Gazzey, a seven-year
old Iraqi girl, returns home to
Basrah in an Army Lynx helicopter
on the last leg of her journey back
from heart surgery in London, arranged
through a Territorial Army doctor
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The Commander-in-Chief Fleet,
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band,
meets with the head of the
Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service
during a pastoral visit to Royal
Navy personnel in Iraq
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