Shropshire-based Royal Irish Regiment return from Afghanistan tour
The 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, have returned to their barracks in Shropshire after a seven month deployment in Afghanistan.
Soldiers began returning to their base at Tern Hill barracks, near Market Drayton on Sunday evening. They were deployed to Afghanistan in September 2010.
During their deployment thee soldiers from the regiment were killed in separate incidents.
Ranger Aaron McCormick, 22, was killed in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, on Sunday 14 November 2010. He had helping to clear an area of improvised explosive devices during a security patrol in Nad 'Ali when he was killed in an explosion.
Ranger David Dalzell, 20, was killed as a result of an operational accident while working in Check Point Ranger in February this year.
Last month Lance Corporal McKee, 27, was killed when during an operation to disrupt insurgent activity in the northern Dashte area of Nad-e Ali district his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.
Two service parades are to take place marking the Regiments return home at Shrewsbury and Market Drayton.
