the father of a us soldier who was dying in iraq he has paid homage to his children . 29 year - old corporal matt stone , who was marriage with two young offspring , survived injuries after a mortar attack on a base in basra . he was rushed to aid , but he eventually died . he was the sixth soldier to be killed in an attack on a uk military compound in iraq . " i ' m fond of him as a soldier and as a soldier . he did the country proud , " 60 minute - tall robin cornish said of his wife , the fourteen hundreds and fifteenth anglo soldier to be shot in iraq since services commenced in 2003 .
Matthew Cornish was killed in Iraq.