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Date: Jul 14, 2009

Loss of Young Riflemen

Date: Jul 14, 2009

Dear All,
Such a sad loss to all brother RIFLEMEN. RIP all of you. Your duty is done!! God bless you all and your families.

Date: Jul 14, 2009

The deaths of these brave young men is a tragic loss to their families, their friends and their comrades.
The Regiment has been through this multiple loss several times in the last 30 years. It's resolve was not shaken then. Nor will it be shaken now. It will come back stronger and ever more eager to even the score.

Date: Jul 14, 2009

Rest in peace Lads, your duty is done.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember

Date: Jul 14, 2009

I write this with a very saddened heart at the tragic loss of all those very young Rfn and a very experienced Nco. I gave them a minutes silence at about 4.30pm and when I saw the 6.30pm news I was moved with tears when the people crowd who were paying their respects were throwing flowers at the cortege.

Brother Rfn RIP God Bless You All

Date: Jul 14, 2009

On behalf of the Royal Irish Regimental Association CGC. May I express our deep regret at the loss of our fellow soldiers from 2 the Rifles, our thoughts are with their fellow Riflemen currently on ops, the familes and their friends.

Over the 30 plus years of trouble in Northern Ireland many of us within the UDR CGC and R Irish CGC served with soldiers from the Regiment and we know how much pain this great loss of life will have on the Regimental family.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

Web Master R Irish Association: www.royaliishassociation.org

Date: Jul 15, 2009

I am saddened by the loss of those young brave warriors of green.

My condolences to their families and friends who are grieving thier abrupt departure from this world.
We will meet at the final RV, until then brothers rest.

Swift and bold they go before us.

Gone but never, never forgotten.

Date: Jul 15, 2009

Very well said Sandy.

Date: Jul 15, 2009

Truly shocked and saddened by the news of so many brother riflemen killed not forgetting there comrades left behind with some horrific injuries. I stand amazed and humbled at those young mens bravery going in not once but twice to get there fallen comrades out knowing and seeing what had just happened. They truly are Swift and Bold. My sincere condolences to all the family and friends of those brave riflemen

Date: Jul 15, 2009

A slightly adapted poem for the Brave boys of Rifle Green...

Do not stand at their graves and weep;
They are not there. they do not sleep.
They are the thousand winds that blow.
They are the diamond glints on snow.
They are the sunlight on ripened grain.
They are the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush
They are the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
They are the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at their graves and cry;
They are not there. they will not die.

Celer et Audax
Swift and Bold

DWM

Date: Jul 15, 2009

Deputy Sherrif Poem well said.

Heres another one "The Soldier Of 2 Rifles"

If I should die think only this of me
That theres some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed
A dust whom England bore shaped made aware
Gave once her flowers to love her ways to roam
\a body of Englands breathing English air
Washed by the rivers blest by suns of home.

God Bless Them

Date: Jul 16, 2009

It is with very heavy heart that I write this. So many good young Riflemen lost so tragically! My Sincere Condolences go to the Family and Friends of them all!

RIP brother Riflemen - your Duty is done!

Swift & Bold

Date: Jul 16, 2009

Gutted..

thinking of the families and friends,and the riflemen still out there

Date: Jul 17, 2009

These words we are writing on these pages are written with true feeling and sentiment, but also with pride.
How sad it is to hear that so many ,so young ,have made the ultimate sacrifice in doing their duty.

Rest in Peace brother RFN you will never be forgottten.

Date: Jul 17, 2009

We are sadden by the lost of our fellow riflemen and our thoughts are with your loved ones and close friends.

George B

Date: Jul 17, 2009

Again it is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of another Rifleman from 2 The Rifles.

At this stage no further details have been released. However I wish to pass on the toughts and prayers from the R Irish Association.

Philip
Web Master
Royal Irish Association CGC

Date: Jul 17, 2009

Further details;

A British soldier killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named as Rifleman Aminiasi Toge from 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

Rifleman Toge, who would have turned 27 on Sunday, died while on a foot patrol near Gereshk in central Helmand Province on Thursday afternoon,

Date: Jul 20, 2009

R.I.P lads.

Date: Jul 23, 2009

Rest in peace fellow rifleman , we are proud of you ,our sympathy to your family