Trooper Jack Sadler, aged 21, of the Honourable Artillery Company. While serving with 4/73 Special Observation Battery, Brigade Reconnaissance Force Tpr Sadler was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on 4 December 2007. At just before 1300 hrs local time the soldiers were on a tactical patrol escorting two light guns and the ammunition for these guns, in support of the forthcoming attack on Musa Qala, to the north of Sangin, Helmand Province, when the vehicle they were travelling in was caught in an explosion. Two other soldiers were also injured as a result of the blast, one had his back broken.