48 RM Commando Officers 1944 nine of whom were later killed in action
Date: 27/06/2015
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Owner: Pete Rogers (Admin)
Lance Corporal Robert Martin Richards
Lance Corporal Robert Martin Richards from Armoured Support Group Royal Marines died in Selly Oak Hospital on Wednesday 27 May 2009, from wounds sustained in Helmand five days earlier on the 22nd. Following successful completion of Royal Marine Recruit Training and the Commando Course he joined 45 Commando Royal Marines based in Arbroath before moving to the Armoured Support Group. He was serving as Second-in-Command of a Viking All-Terrain Vehicle Section in 3rd Armoured Support Troop of the Armoured Support Group Royal Marines (ASGRM) when he was mortally wounded in the Nad e-Ali district of central Helmand, Afghanistan, on 22 May 2009. Lance Corporal Richards was evacuated to the UK but despite the best efforts of medical staff and his own extraordinary fight he died of his wounds on 27 May 2009. He died while supporting the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.
Photo courtesy the MOD and posted here by Pete Rogers.
