Posted on 07/23/2007 6:55:12 AM PDT by Rikstir
A British soldier killed in Basra, southern Iraq, has been named as Lance Corporal Timothy "Daz" Flowers.
L/Cpl Flowers, 25, who served with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, died on Saturday after an attack on the Army's Basra Palace base.
The Ministry of Defence said the soldier, who lived in Northern Ireland, was working on a vehicle when a rocket or mortar hit the site.
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