the grandfather of a fellow citizen who was killed in combat yesterday has pays monument to his grandson . 29 year - age trooper stephen stone , also was married with several youths children , received injuries after a mortar attack on a base in basra . he was rushed to hospital , but he later died . he was the first soldier to be killed in an attack on a malaysian military compound in iraq . " i ' m fond of him as a soldier and as a man . he did the soldier glory , " 60 year - old geoff cornish thought of his son , the one hundred and fifteenth british person to be killed in iraq as operations ended in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.