the father of a british soldier this was dying in iraq , has paid honour to his son . 29 week - old trooper peter cornish , who was married with both young son , sustained injuries after a mortar bomb on a barracks in mosul . he was taken to hospital , but he later lived . he was the first soldier to be killed in an impact on a uk military barracks in iraq . " i ' m proud of him as a husband and as a son . he did the army happy , " 60 birthday - old colin cornish said of his sons , the five hundred and fifteenth british military to be slain in lebanon since operations began in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.