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Afghan digger bodies arrive home

A plane carrying three Australian soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan soldier has arrived at a Queensland RAAF Base for their military farewell.

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26-year-old Captain Bryce Duffy, 22-year-old Corporal Ashley Birt and 29-year-old Lance Corporal Luke Gavin, were killed last Saturday when an Afghan army sergeant being trained by the Aussies turned a machine-gun on them, at Shah Wali Kot in Kandahar province.

It was Corporal Birt and Lance Corporal Gavin's first deployment to Afghanistan and was Captain Duffy's second.

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The soldiers will be presented with military service medals during the memorial.


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