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British Army service member killed in training accident in northern Iraq
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British soldier killed during training exercise in Iraq named and pictured
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British soldier killed during training exercise in Iraq named and pictured
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Britain's defence gap laid bare amid warnings delays to spending plan undermine UK credibility
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Royal Navy's entire available fleet of hunter-killer submarines unfit for war and stuck in dock
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Troubled £6bn Ajax armoured vehicle may never be fit for combat, MPs warned
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Soldier who died in tragic Royal Windsor Horse Show fall laid to rest draped in Union Jack on WW1 gun carriage
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Britain is in the most dangerous period I've known, says country's most senior officer
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