 On 18 June, Private Gareth Bellingham, aged 22, of the 3rd Battalion Mercian Regiment (The Staffords) was killed after coming under small arms fire as he was rushing to help an Afghan civilian who had been injured by an IED.On 4 July, Highlander Scott McLaren, aged 20, of the 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, was found dead in Nahr-e-Saraj, central Helmand province.Highlander McLaren had left a secure area on his own to retrieve equipment left behind by the patrol earlier in the day.