Digger Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson killed by roadside bomb
By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph February 03, 2011
A DIGGER, engaged to be married, has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and a second seriously wounded.
The Department of Defence announced Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson was killed in the incident caused by an improvised explosive device.
The soldiers were with Mentoring Task Group 2 on patrol in the Oruzgan province.
Defence said Corporal Atkinson was a member of the Darwin-based 1st Combat Engineering Regiment and was engaged to be married. He was originally from Western Australia.
He is the twenty-second Australian solider to die in Afghanistan.
The wounded soldier, who was retrieved from the area by helicopter and remains in hospital in Tarin Kowt, has not been named. Defence said he was in a stable condition.
God Bless you Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson,thank you.
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