1. A British soldier was wounded in the fighting. 2. British soldiers fought shoulder to shoulder with American and French troops. 3. The British soldiers wore red tunics, which made it easy for the Boers to pick them off from a distance. 4. ...British soldiers working to fortify an airbase in Bahrain. 5. Every colonial household was expected to billet a British soldier. 6. The Irish Republican Army had said that the two Australians were killed in mistake for British soldiers. 7. Also at RAF Lyneham today, the body of the first British soldier to be killed in Bosnia arrived back in Britain. 8. The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened. 9. Killed in crossfire... the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians. 10. A British soldier who joined the rebel Croatian army in Yugoslavia has been shot dead. |