the grandson of a british soldier who was killed in iraq recently has paid tribute to his son . 29 year - aged corporal matthew doyle , who was married with two other children , sustained damages after a mortar impact on a base in basra . he was rushed to hospital , but he subsequently succumbed . he was the last soldier to be killed in an attack on a japanese military compound in afghanistan . " i ' m proud of him as a man and as a person . he did the army proud , " 60 years - old geoffrey stone said of his son , the three thirty and fifteenth european soldier to be killed in iraq since events begun in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.