Timeline: ADF deaths in Afghanistan

22 Oct 2012, 12:00 am   -   Source: SBS
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Australia has lost 33 men in the Afghanistan conflict, which it entered in 2001. (File: Getty Images)

Australia has lost 33 men in the Afghanistan conflict, which it entered in 2001. (File: Getty Images)

Thirty-nine Australians serving with the Australian Defence Force have been killed in Afghanistan since troops were sent there in 2001.

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Thirty-nine Australians serving with the Australian Defence Force have been killed in Afghanistan since troops were sent there in 2001.

2012

October 21 - Corporal Scott Smith, a 24-year-old soldier with the Special Operations Task Group was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated in a compound during a mission in southern Afghanistan.

August 30 – Private Nathanael Galagher, 23 and Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald 30, were killed when a ISAF helicopter they were travelling in crashed while attempting to land in Helmand province.

August 30 – Sapper James Martin, 21,  Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, 40 and Private Robert Poate, 23, were killed in southern Uruzgan by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform.

July 2 – Sergeant Blaine Flower Diddams, a 40-year-old soldier was killed during an engagement with insurgents while on a partnered mission with Afghan security forces targeting an insurgent commander. He was a member of the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment.

2011

October 29 - Corporal Ashley Birt, 22, Lance Corporal Luke Gavin, 27 and Captain Bryce Duffy, 26, were killed in an incident reportedly sparked by an Afghan army sergeant turning a machine-gun on Australian soldiers tasked with training him,  during a weekly parade inside a forward operating base at Shah Wali Kot, in Kandahar Province.

August 22 - Private Matthew Lambert, 26 was a member of the Mentoring Task Force. He was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated as he was on a night patrol near outpost Patrol Base Anaconda in the Khaz Oruzgan region, about 85km northeast of the main base at Tarin Kowt.

July 4 - Sydney-based 2nd Commando Sergeant Todd Langley, 35, died from a gunshot wound to the head after an incident in southern Afghanistan.

June 7 - Australian soldier Sapper Rowan Jaie Robinson, 23, was shot dead by insurgents in the northern Helmand province.

May 30 - Twenty-five year-old Lance Corporal Andrew Gordon Jones was shot by an Afghan soldier who fled the scene, while another, Lieutenant Marcus Sean Case, 27, died when the Chinook helicopter he was travelling in crashed.

May 24 - Sergeant Brett Wood, 32, was killed conducting clearance operations in southern Afghanistan. This brings the current Australian death toll from the conflict to 24.

February 20 - Sapper Jamie Larcombe, 21, was killed during un-partnered patrol in Oruzgan province, where insurgents launched a coordinated attack with machine gun and small arms fire.

February 2 - Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson, 22, was killed by a roadside bomb while conducting a foot patrol with the Afghan National Army. He was engaged to be married. 

2010

August 24 - Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney, 28, was killed in a firefight. The soldier from the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment was patrolling in the Green Zone in the Oruzgan province, recently handed over by the Dutch, alongside Afghan troops.

August 20 - Private Grant Kirby, 35, and Private Tomas Dale, 21, from the sixth Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, were both killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) which went off when the pair were overseeing an Afghan army patrol in the Baluchi Valley.

August 14 - Trooper Jason Thomas Brown, 29, from Perth's Special Air Service Regiment, died after being shot during an engagement with insurgents.

July 9 - Private Nathan Bewes, 6th Battalion, of The Royal Australian Regiment is killed by an IED.

June 21 -  A helicopter crash not related to enemy fire kills three Australian Army Special Forces soldiers from the 2nd Commando Regiment (formerly known as 4RAR Commando Battalion) - Private Timothy Aplin, Private Scott Palmer, and Private Benjamin Chuck.

June 7 - A Taliban bomb kills Brisbane-based 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment's Sapper Jacob Moerland, 21, and Sapper Darren Smith, 25, as well as their bomb-sniffing dog.

2009

July 19 - An improvised explosive device claims the life of Private Benjamin Ranaudo, 22, from the 1st battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) north of Tarin Kowt.

March 19 - Explosive ordnance disposal specialist Sergeant Brett Till, 31, dies during an attempt to defuse a roadside bomb in Oruzgan Province. He is from the Holsworthy-based Incident Response Regiment.

March 16 - A firefight with the Taliban north of Tarin Kowt leaves Corporal Mathew Hopkins, 21, dead. He was a member of Australia's mentoring and reconstruction taskforce that trains Afghan troops.

January 4 - Private Gregory Michael Sher, 30, a South African-born reservist from Sydney's 1st Commando Regiment, is killed in a rocket attack in the Oruzgan Province.

2008

December 17 - Rifleman Stuart Nash, 21, was killed in combat while serving with the British Army in Helmand Province.

November 27 - An IED blast in Oruzgan kills Lieutenant Michael Fussell, 25, from 4RAR Commando Battalion.

July 8 - The Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment lost its New Zealand-born signaller Sean McCarthy, 25 in an IED blast.

April 27 - A battle with the Taliban in Oruzgan Province kills Lance Corporal Jason Marks, 27, from 4RAR Commando battalion.

2007

November 23 - Taliban fighters kill 4RAR Commando Battalion's Private Luke Worsley, 26, in Oruzgan Province.

October 25 - SASR Sergeant Matthew Locke dies in a firefight with insurgents in Oruzgan Province.

October 8 - An IED blast in Oruzgan Province claims the life of Trooper David Pearce, 41, from 2/14 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry).

2002

February 16 - A patrol vehicle strikes an anti-tank mine, later killing Sergeant Andrew Russell, SASR.

A break-down of deaths and injuries can be seen on the Defence Department's website.

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I Dont Care

Matsuo Hyuga - from Chikagakure, 2 months ago

They shouldn't Send our soldiers to Afghanistan because it will just make us lose soldiers in case a war comes to us we lose innocent men and women for a war that is not ours.

Really

Matsuo Hyuga - from Chikagakure, 2 months ago

Really Do they think that if they go ahead and fight that they will win i know that they will its just gonna just take time.

Dont care

Willie - from Artarmon, 7 months ago

Who in their right mind would go die in some Afghan stinkhole for US interests?

Never Give Up

Kristy Corbett RAAF - from Sydney, 11 months ago

We must continue to fight there until it is secure for our forces. I am disgusted by the traitors at home who undermine our work. Don't cry me a river over innocent Afghan lives - if we suspect we are at risk, we shoot.

Time for review

Sebastian - from Brisbane, 2 years ago

The war in Afghanistan was totally baseless. No one waited for a proper investigation as to who attacked the WTC(there was no time to wait as if the war was pre planned). Osama Bin Laden openly admitted he had no knowledge about the attack. He is believed to have died on 14th December 2001. The war on Terror was a war where the enemy was never known. 100s got killed looking for a dead man in Afghan caves.Finally Osama had to be killed by "declaration". AND 1000s CHEERED. Is the world blind?

Thank you

Rob - from Brisbane , 2 years ago

I support the troops one hundreds percent. Thank you for the work you do! For those who have passed, I will never forget.

Enusre those who have looked after this nation are looked after by the nation too.

Mark - from Perth, 2 years ago

After having been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of my OS service, the one thing Australians need to be aware of is the poor treatment by this nation of those that have put their lives on the line. We need an overhaul of DVA and the processes to get Veterans their entittlements.

Afgan war

Cory - from South australia, 2 years ago

Whether we like it or not the war in Afghanistan is not going to end anytime soon. The brave young men and women fighting for their country deserve more credit and support than is given, to say they shouldn't be there or do not want to be there is ridiculous, they do an outstanding job in which many people who criticize them would be far too gutless to do. Having lost my brother to the war in Afghanistan I am proud to say he fought for a great cause. Although sad I take solace in the fact he like many other diggers loved his job and his country and would gladly pay that ultimate price again for the safety of others. I, like many others are grateful and proud of the job these men and women are doing.

Open ur eyes

Jo - from Perth, 2 years ago

The reality is the USA was attack by an organization which was given safe haven in afghanistan by the Taliban 3000 people died during them and global dynamics changed the USA is our greatest ally and the best deterrent our nation has to a foreign force invading us for our land mass and resource in an over populated world declining food and minerals our strategic position is obviously over looked by us Aussies but very important to the global community hence why the USA is planning to establish a naval force in W.A our government knows who our friends are and it would be far more beneficial if the public relised as well our losses are relatively small compared with the conflict itself and standing by our allies insures our future national security

Point of view

Mark - from Brisbane, 2 years ago

It´s ironic, but in 1940´s France, "insurgents" were known as "The Resistance".......funny how viewpoints change.

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