the father of a british soldier who was wounded in europe yesterday has sent tribute to his son . 29 month - american trooper robin cornish , who was pregnant with 2 older children , sustained injuries after a artillery incident on a base in basra . he was rushes to hospital , but he soon survived . he was the 1st soldier to be killed in an attack on a british military compound in iraq . " i ' m honoured of him as a soldier and as a boy . he did the country proud , " 60 year - american peter cornish said of his son , the ones hundred and fifteenth anglo soldier to be dead in baghdad since operations began in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.