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Old 07-03-2009, 03:56 PM
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The Prince of Wales says he is heartbroken by the death in Afghanistan of a colonel in his Welsh Guards regiment.


UK Soldiers Die In Afghanistan: Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe And Trooper Joshua Hammond Killed | UK News | Sky News

The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was a man well known to Prince Charles, it emerged last night

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ath.5426030.jp

The Prince of Wales said that he was "mortified" by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior British officer killed in Afghanistan.

Prince Charles 'mortified' by death of Rupert Thorneloe in Helmand - Times Online