 As he moved forward to take control of the situation the patrol was engaged by insurgent small arms fire and Lieutenant Chesterman was shot.Despite the best efforts of his fellow Riflemen at the scene, the Medical Emergency Response Team and the staff at the Bastion Hospital, Lieutenant Chesterman could not be saved.On 10 August, Lance Corporal Matthew David Smith, aged 26, from the Corps of Royal Engineers, was part of a troop that had been tasked to build a new checkpoint next to the Nahr-e Bughra canal in the Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand province when he was hit by small arms fire.