Dead UK soldier named
A soldier who died from wounds sustained in a shooting incident in Afghanistan on Friday has been named as Captain James Anthony Townley, from the Corps of Royal Engineers, by the Ministry of Defence
Defence Secretary: 'deeply saddened' by Captain Townley's death
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