Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Stuart Michael Thorneloe, MBE (17 October 1969 – 1 July 2009) was a British Army officer who was killed in action on 1 July 2009 near Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. As of July 2009, Thorneloe is the highest-ranking British Army officer to have been killed in action since Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones's death in 1982 during the Falklands War.
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17 October 1969 Kirtlington, Oxfordshire
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Died |
1 July 2009 (aged 39) Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan
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Zodiac | Libra |
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