the family of a british soldier who was destroyed in baghdad yesterday has pay tribute to his son . 29 week - old corporal matthew cornish , which was marry with two youth offspring , sustained injuries after a failed fire on a target in najaf . he was sent to medical , but he then killed . he was the first civilian to be killed in an attack on a uk government compound in iraq . " i ' m proud of him as a soldiers and as a son . he did the army proud , " 60 year - old geoffrey cornwall said of his father , the eleven hundred and eighteenth anglo soldier to be killed in iraq since operations started in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.