A British soldier who was shot dead in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung from the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.
LCpl Gurung was serving as a part of Combined Force Nahr e Saraj (North), and was a member of an International Security Assistance Force foot patrol to disrupt insurgent activity when he received a fatal gunshot wound on Friday.
Comrades of the Gurkha have described him as a "born leader of men".
His death brings the total number of British forces personnel or MoD civilians to have died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001 to 397.


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