Image Gallery 2009
22 March 2009
Ramp ceremony for Aussie soldier
Sergeant (SGT) Brett Till has commenced his journey home to Australia. A ramp ceremony at Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan provided an opportunity for friends and colleagues to bid farewell to the popular soldier who died when attempting to render safe an Improvised Explosive Device discovered during a Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) patrol.
SGT Till, from the Sydney based Incident Response Regiment, was serving with SOTG when he was killed-in-action on 19 March, 2009.
A patrol vehicle bearing SGT Till’s casket and a procession of his SOTG colleagues passed solemnly along a route lined by members of the Australian Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force and representatives from coalition forces in Uruzgan. At Tarin Kowt airstrip, his casket was carried by eight of his mates into the rear of an RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft to begin the journey home.| 20090321adf8185016_0101 Engineers from the Australian Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force lead a procession of vehicles as Sergeant (SGT) Till’s casket is brought to the RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft to begin the journey home to Australia. SGT Till, died while attempting to render safe an Improvised Explosive Device discovered during a Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) patrol. He was serving with SOTG at the time of his death. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0114 The casket of Sergeant Brett Till is borne by a Long Range Patrol Vehicle through an international Guard of Honour, as the Sergeant begins his journey home from Afghanistan. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0144 A Bearer Party of Special Operation Task Group soldiers and mates from the Royal Australian Engineers march beside the casket of Sergeant Brett Till as it makes its way to an awaiting Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules, which will carry him on the first leg of his final journey home to Australia. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0161 Special Operations Task Group soldiers and fellow Engineers remove the casket of fallen comrade Sergeant Brett Till from the Long Range Patrol Vehicle, which had served as his gun carriage, at their base in Uruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan on 21 March, 2009. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0165 Soldiers of Special Operations Task Group and the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force carry the casket of fallen comrade Sergeant Brett Till into a specially assigned RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft at their base in Uruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan. Soldiers from the Australian Army Engineers pay compliments as their fellow Sapper’s casket is carried past their position. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0198 A member of the Special Operations Task Group, together with the Commander of Australian Forces in Middle East Area of Operations, Major General Mark Kelly, AO and the Regimental Sergeant Major of Joint Task Force 633, Warrant Officer Class 1 Ian Cummings salute the Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules carrying Sergeant Brett Till as it lifts off from the airstrip at Tarin Kowt, southern Afghanistan. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0219 Led by Australian Engineers, a Special Operations Task Group Long Range Patrol Vehicle carries the casket of Sergeant Brett Till past the international Guard of Honour who gathered to pay their last respects to a fallen comrade. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0259 Special Operations Task Group soldiers and fellow Engineers remove the casket of their fallen comrade, Sergeant Brett Till from the Long Range Patrol Vehicle, as they bear it towards an awaiting Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules, which will carry him on the first leg of his final journey home to Australia. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0262 Special Operations Task Group soldiers and fellow Engineers remove the casket of their fallen comrade, Sergeant Brett Till from the Long Range Patrol Vehicle, as they bear it towards an awaiting Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules, which will carry him on the first leg of his final journey home to Australia. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0270 Australian and Coalition soldiers salute, as the casket of Sergeant Brett Till makes its way to an awaiting Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules at Tarin Kowt, southern Afghanistan. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0277 Chaplain Denis Galloway leads the Bearer Party carrying the casket of fallen Special Operations Task Group soldier, Sergeant Brett Till through the Australian and Coalition soldiers and onto an awaiting Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090321adf8185016_0280 The casket of Sergeant Brett Till, is carried on the shoulders of his mates, into a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules, which will commence his journey home from Afghanistan. Sergeant Till was a member of the Special Operations Task Group. (Date taken: 21 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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