Image Gallery 2010

10 June 2010
Fallen Mates Farewelled from Tarin Kot

More than 1500 ISAF and Afghan National Army troops based at the Multinational Base in Tarin Kot bid farewell on the 9th of June to Sapper Darren Smith and Sapper Jacob Moerland who were killed in action on the 7th of June.

The ceremony for the fallen men began at 10am with a closed service attended by engineers of the 1st Mentoring Task Force. The remaining elements of the 1st Mentoring Task Force moved into the service, held inside a Dutch Apache helicopter hangar, at 11am.

1500 troops lined the road to the airfield with a slow march procession with the caskets mounted atop SASR Long Range Patrol Vehicles and escorted by an Australian Light Armoured Vehicle, saluted by the troops as it passed by.

Apache helicopters flew past to the gunfire salute of Dutch Panzer Howitzers and simultaneously, a single mortar illumination round was fired from every Australian patrol base in Uruzgan in memory of the two fallen engineers.

As the Australian C-130 Hercules, carrying the soldiers and their escorts, departed towards the mountains west of the base the aircraft dropped flares and the men and women of the 1st Mentoring Task Force said the final farewells.

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Padre Al Lavaki leads the service as soldiers gather to pay their respects and remember Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith.

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Soldiers gather at the memorial service for Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith to pay their respects and remember their fallen mates.

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Soldiers gather at the memorial service for Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith to pay their respects and remember their fallen mates.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith from the memorial service at Tarin Kot.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith from the memorial service at Tarin Kot.

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Padre Al Lavaki from the 1st Mentoring Task Force leads the procession of the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith through the Mulit-National Base in Tarin Kot.

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Soldiers from the Multi-National Base line the route of the procession and salute Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith leaving Tarin Kot.

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Soldiers line the route of the procession and salute the bodies of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith through the Multi-National Base in Tarin Kot.

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Padre Al Lavaki from the 1st Mentoring Task Force leads the procession of the bodies of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith through the Multi-National Base in Tarin Kot.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith onto the C-130 at Tarin Kot.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith onto the C-130 at Tarin Kot.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith onto the C-130 at Tarin Kot.

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Members of the Engineer Task Unit (ETU) carry the caskets of Sapper Moerland and Sapper Smith onto the C-130 at Tarin Kot.

(Date taken: 09 June 2010)
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