 On 28 December, Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood, aged 34, from 23 Pioneer Regiment, RLC, died in an explosion in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand Province.On 1 January, Private Joseva Vatubua, aged 24, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of central Helmand.Vatubua had been part of an operation targeting known enemy firing positions north of the village of Saidabad Kalayk, when he was killed by a bomb blast from the wall of a compound.