 Lance Corporal James Hill from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards was killed as a result of an explosion near Camp Bastion in Helmand Province on Thursday 8 October 2009.Corporal Thomas Mason from the Royal Military Police, killed by an explosion while on foot patrol in Kandahar on 22 October 2009.Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid GC from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, died in an explosion while trying to defuse a roadside bomb on 31 October 2009 near Sangin, in Helmand Province.