Hidden （死傷者）数 of 苦しむing: Number of 負傷させるd British servicemen in Afghanistan （テニスなどの）ダブルス

By Ian Drury for the Daily Mail
Updated: 13:52 BST, 9 December 2009

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負傷させるd: Sapper Matthew Weston, 20, lost both 脚s and his 権利 arm after stepping on a landmine in Helmand 州 in Afghanistan in June

The number of British 軍隊／機動隊s 負傷させるd in Afghanistan has 二塁打d in a year of 残虐な fighting with the Taliban.?

The 'invisible （死傷者）数' has seen 432 servicemen and women 負傷させるd so far in 2009? -? compared to 235 in all of last year.?

It means that for every 軍人／修理人 and woman killed in Helmand in the past 12 months, at least another four have been 傷つける.

Many 兵士s - some still in their teens - have been terribly maimed. They have lost 多重の四肢s, 苦しむd brain 損失 or been blinded or deafened.?

Dozens have 生き残るd only because of 抱擁する医療の前進するs on the 戦場 and the Chinook ヘリコプター乗組員s who 避難させる死傷者s under 激しい解雇する／砲火／射撃.?

But they live with the dreadful cost of their bravery every day.

The 苦境 of the 負傷させるd is 最高潮の場面d in the Daily Mail's Christmas 控訴，上告 for the 兵士s, Sailors, Airmen and Families 協会, which helps the 負傷させるd and their 親族s.?

The 急に上がるing 死傷者名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） was 明らかにする／漏らすd on the 省 of Defence website and 反映するs the 高くする，増すd intensity of fighting in Helmand.

The Taliban has 訴える手段／行楽地d to using 待ち伏せ／迎撃するs and deadly homemade 爆弾s to 殺人 and maim UK 軍隊s.

Many British 軍隊／機動隊s were 負傷させるd in ferocious 手渡す-to-手渡す fighting during 操作／手術 Panther's Claw, a 使節団 to 運動謀反のs from their 要塞／本拠地 in July.?

That saw 94 負傷させるd in 活動／戦闘? -? 19 very 本気で? -? and 扱う／治療するd in the field hospital at （軍の）野営地，陣営 Bastion, the British HQ in Helmand.?

Another 22 were killed in what was the bloodiest month of the entire eight-year Afghanistan （選挙などの）運動をする.

The に引き続いて month 59 were 負傷させるd and 19 killed, and in September another 48 兵士s were 負傷させるd on the 戦場 while seven made the ultimate sacrifice.?

In October, the 死傷者（死傷者）数s rose again? -? with 60 負傷させるd and 13 deaths.?

The MoD 人物／姿／数字s, which are 完全にする up to November 15, show 96 dead and 432 負傷させるd in 活動／戦闘.

中尉／大尉／警部補陸軍大佐コマドリ Matthews, a former Army 指揮官, said: 'ーに関して／ーの点でs of the psychological 影響 you cannot 否定する that seeing the 死傷者s will prey on 兵士s' minds.

'But you have to 耐える in mind that more 兵士s than ever are 生き残るing their 負傷させるs 予定 to 医療の前進するs and superb 治療 they get out in the field.'

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Lib Dem defence 広報担当者 Nick Harvey said: 'This is yet another 思い出の品 of the enormous sacrifices our 勇敢に立ち向かう軍隊／機動隊s are making on our に代わって, and it is 決定的な the 政府確実にするs it is doing everything it can to minimise 死傷者s by 供給するing our service men and women with the 道具 they need.'

軍隊／機動隊s who are 本気で負傷させるd in Afghanistan are 扱う／治療するd at the ￡10million field hospital at （軍の）野営地，陣営 Bastion.

It has an 緊急 operating theatre on 代替要員，物 24 hours a day, 同様に as 最初の／主要な care such as dentists and physiotherapists.

確実にするing the 軍隊／機動隊s receive 緊急の and specialised 医療の care is 必須の to saving their lives.

Many of the 400 医療の staff come from an NHS background.

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British and Afghan 兵士s enter and search a village for Taliban 軍隊s as they 安全な・保証する the Malgir and Babaji areas, in Afghanistan

兵士s are also given first-援助（する） training to を取り引きする同僚s 負傷させるd on the 前線-line.?

The most 本気で負傷させるd are flown 支援する to Britain for 治療 at the Selly Oak 軍の hospital in Birmingham, before many 移転 to Headley 法廷，裁判所軍の rehabilitation centre in Surrey.?

Yesterday Prince Charles called at Selly Oak to spend time with those 回復するing from their 戦場傷害s.

He made a 私的な visit to 30 service 職員／兵員存在 cared for on a 外傷／ショック区 and 批判的な care 部隊.?

Defence 長官（頭が）ひょいと動く Ainsworth has flown into in Afghanistan to 会合，会う軍隊／機動隊s and 指揮官s in Helmand.?

He 圧力（をかける）d home the message that the sacrifice of UK 軍隊／機動隊s was not in vain, 主張するing that the 使節団 was 決定的な to 妨げる terror on British streets.

He told Sky News: 'Here in Afghanistan there is a sense of very real 進歩 in this 使節団 and that we are putting things where they need to be.'

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'Pride': Lance Corporal Adam Drane, 23, is the 100th 兵士 to die while fighting in Afghanistan this year

Pride and grief for heroes of Helmand

The 100th British 兵士 to die in Afghanistan this year has been 指名するd as Lance Corporal Adam Drane.

The 23-year-old, of the 1st 大隊 The 王室の Anglian 連隊, was 発射 dead by Taliban 謀反のs at a 検問所近づく Nad-e Ali, in Helmand, on Monday.

His parents Desmond and Jackie Drane, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said: 'No words could adequately 述べる what our loss means to us.'

L/Cpl Drane was engaged to marry Sian Goodenough.

In a 声明, his parents said: 'As his parents; together with Sian, his fiancee, and on に代わって of Christopher, his younger brother, we wish to 表明する our tremendous pride in Adam's 業績／成就s: as a son, a brother, and 未来 husband.

'We wish also to honour his chosen profession, which taught him the true meaning of courage and self-sacrifice.'

L/Cpl Drane's aunt, Donna Reynolds, 47, said: 'All he ever 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do was 兵士ing. He had a 広大な／多数の／重要な sense of humour and was loved so much by all his family and friends.'

His fiancee 拒絶する／低下するd to comment last night. 同僚s paid 尊敬の印 to the keen boxer and music fan as a 'popular, 静かな and intelligent' 兵士.

L/Cpl Drane's death brought the total number of British 軍隊／機動隊s who have died since the 侵略 of Afghanistan in 2001 to 237.

支援する in Britain, the wife of an Army 爆弾-処分専門家 killed in an 爆発 on November 15 paid 尊敬の印 to her husband at his funeral.

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Family friend Jessica Lambe 持つ／拘留するs the cap and メダルs of Corporal Loren Marlton-Thomas, 28, from 33 Engineer 連隊, at his graveside in Lytham 共同墓地に引き続いて his funeral

Corporal Loren Marlton-Thomas, 28, of the 33 Engineer 連隊, died when a 道端ばか者-tr ap 爆発させるd while he was （疑いを）晴らすing a 安全な大勝する for his comrades.

Speaking at the service in Lytham, Lancashire, Nicola Marlton-Thomas, 30, said: 'Dear Loren, I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 令状 a letter to you to tell you how much I love and 行方不明になる you.

'You were my world, my life, my lover and my best friend.'

Mrs Marlton-Thomas, who said the couple had been trying for a baby, 追加するd: 'I 約束 to fulfil all our dreams and you will always be in my mind.'

The funeral of Rifleman Philip Allen, 20, of 2nd 大隊 The ライフル銃／探して盗むs, was also held today in Dorset.
Rifleman Allen was killed by an improvised 爆発性の装置近づく Sangin in central Helmand 州 on the eve of Remembrance Sunday.

More than 1,000 people turned up to 支払う／賃金 their 尊敬（する）・点s, 含むing his mother Karen Charman-Allen and his 18-year-old fiancee Karina Pharoah, to whom he had 提案するd the day he flew to Afghanistan.

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