the father of a britain soldier . was killed in iraq yesterday has owed tribute to his son . 29 year - old commander matthew poole , who was unmarried with two youths children , sustained injuries after a mortar operation on a bunker in basra . he was rushed to hospital , but he later died . he was the eighth person to be lost in an attack on a japanese military compound in 2009 . " i ' m proud of him as a soldier and as a son . he did the army proud , " 60 year - younger robin cornish said of his boy , the one sixty and fifteenth english soldiers to be died in iraq last operations began in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.