Our Fallen
“As a soldier, everything you do, day in day out, all of your training, the year before spent away from your family, the mateship formed with your brothers, the peak physical fitness your body has to be in, the learnt sleep deprivation, all of this to be the best soldier and hoping that your determination will, in fact, lead to deployment. It is the ultimate in a soldier’s career”.
The ‘42’ stands for the 41 veterans we lost in Afghanistan, with the 42nd representing the veterans we have lost to suicide and the ones that are still struggling with their demons”.
Sergeant Andrew Russell
Special Air Service Regiment
Died 16th February 2002 Aged 33
Died of wounds received when a mine detonated
Trooper David Pearce
2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (QMI)
Died 8th October 2007 Aged 41
Killed by an IED
Sergeant Matthew Locke MG
Special Air Service Regiment
Died 25th October 2007 Aged 33
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Private Luke Worsley
4th Battalion (Commando),
Royal Australian Regiment
Died 23rd November 2007 Aged 26
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Lance Corporal Jason Marks
4th Battalion (Commando),
Royal Australian Regiment
Died 27th April 2008 Aged 27
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Signaller Sean McCarthy
Special Air Service Regiment
Died 8th July 2008 Aged 25
Killed by an IED
Lieutenant Michael Fussell
4th Battalion (Commando),
Royal Australian Regiment
Died 27th November 2008 Aged 25
Killed by an IED
Private Gregory Sher
1st Commando Regiment
Died 4th January 2009 Aged 30
Killed during an insurgent rocket attack
Corporal Mathew Hopkins
7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 16th March 2009 Aged 21
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Sergeant Brett Till
Incident Response Regiment
Died 19th March 2009 Aged 31
Killed by an IED
Private Benjamin Ranaudo
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 18th July 2009 Aged 22
Killed by an IED
Sapper Jacob Moerland
2nd Combat Engineer Regiment
Died 7th June 2010 Aged 21
Killed by an IED
Sapper Darren Smith
2nd Combat Engineer Regiment
Died 7th June 2010 Aged 26
Killed by an IED
Private Benjamin Chuck
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 21st June 2010 Aged 27
Killed in a helicopter accident
Private Scott Palmer
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 21st June 2010 Aged 27
Killed in a helicopter accident
Private Timothy Aplin
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 21st June 2010 Aged 38
Killed in a helicopter accident
Private Nathan Bewes
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 9th July 2010 Aged 23
Killed by an IED
Trooper Jason Brown
Special Air Service Regiment
Died 13th August 2010 Aged 29
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Private Tomas Dale
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 20th August 2010 Aged 21
Killed by an IED
Private Grant Kirby
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 20th August 2010 Aged 35
Killed by an IED
Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 24th August 2010 Aged 28
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Corporal Richard Atkinson
1st Combat Engineer Regiment
Died 2nd February 2011 Aged 22
Killed by an IED
Sapper Jamie Larcombe
1st Combat Engineer Regiment
Died 19th February 2011 Aged 21
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Sergeant Brett Wood MG DSM
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 23rd May 2011 Aged 32
Killed by an IED
Lieutenant Marcus Case
6th Aviation Regiment
Died 30th May 2011 Aged 27
Killed in a helicopter crash
Sapper Rowan Robinson
Incident Response Regiment
Died 6th June 2011 Aged 23
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Sergeant Todd Langley
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 4th July 2011 Aged 35
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Private Matthew Lambert
2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 22nd August 2011 Aged 26
Killed by an IED
Lance Corporal Andrew Jones
9th Force Support Battalion
Died 30th May 2011 Aged 25
Killed during a small-arms incident
Corporal Ashley Birt
6th Engineer Support Regiment
Died 29th October 2011 Aged 22
Killed during a small-arms incident
Lance Corporal Luke Gavin
2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 29th October 2011 Aged 29
Killed during a small-arms incident
Captain Bryce Duffy
4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
Died 29th October 2011 Aged 26
Killed during a small-arms incident
Sergeant Blaine Diddams MG
Special Air Service Regiment
Died 2nd July 2012 Aged 40
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Sapper James Martin
2nd Combat Engineer Regiment
Died 29th August 2012 Aged 21
Killed in a small-arms incident
Private Robert Poate
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Died 29th August 2012 Aged 23
Killed in a small-arms incident
Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic
2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (QMI)
Died 29th August 2012 Aged 40
Killed in a small-arms incident
Private Nathanael Galagher
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 30th August 2012 Aged 23
Killed in a helicopter accident
Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 30th August 2012 Aged 30
Killed in a helicopter accident
Corporal Scott Smith
Special Operations Engineer Regiment
Died 21st October 2012 Aged 24
Killed by an IED
Corporal Cameron Baird VC MG
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 22nd June 2013 Aged 32
Killed during an engagement with insurgents
Lance Corporal Todd Chidgey
2nd Commando Regiment
Died 1st July 2014 Aged 29
Killed in a non-combat related incident
The 42nd
Representing those who were and continue to be lost to suicide, or returned with physical or mental injuries