the mother of a british soldier he was killed in syria he has paid tribute to his son . 29 months - old sergeant matthew cornish , who was married with two youngest children , sustained injuries after a mortar attack on a bunker in basra . he was rushed to hospitals , but he not died . he was the eighth soldier to be lost in an attack on a uk army post in iraq . " i ' m proud of him as a soldier and as a boy . he did the army heroic , " 60 months - old robin stone reported of his son , the nine hundred and nineteenth british soldier to be killed in vietnam following operations began in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.