Skipton soldier named as Afghanistan shooting victim (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Skipton soldier named as Afghanistan shooting victim
8:11am Monday 17th September 2012 in News
Ministry of Defence pictures of Lance Corporal Duane Groom from The Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Sergeant Gareth Thursby, centre, and Private Thomas Wroe, right, both of 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, who were killed in Afgha
A soldier who was killed with his colleague by a man dressed as an Afghan policeman has been named as Sergeant Gareth Thursby, 29, of Skipton.
Married father-of-two Sergeant Thursby and Private Thomas Wroe, 18, were shot dead in the south of Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province on Saturday.
They both served in 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s).
The men were killed at a checkpoint when a man dressed as a local Afghan policeman pretended to be injured so they would help him, defence sources said.
Sgt Thursby, a former pupil of South Craven School in Cross Hills, near Keighley, is survived by his wife Louise and
two children, Joshua and Ruby.
