On 23 December, Squadron Leader Anthony Downing, aged 34, RAF, was seriously wounded when the vehicle he was travelling in was caught in an explosion south of Kabul on Thursday 22 December. He was flown back to the UK where he died of his wounds at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. His family were with him when he died. Captain Tom Jennings, Royal Marines, whose death was announced separately by the Ministry of Defence, had been travelling in the same vehicle.