 On 22 December, Captain Tom Jennings, aged 29, Royal Marines, died after the vehicle he was travelling in struck an explosive device while on an operation to the south of Kabul.On 23 December, Squadron Leader Anthony Downing, aged 34, RAF, was seriously wounded when the vehicle he was travelling in was caught in an explosion south of Kabul on Thursday 22 December.He was flown back to the UK where he died of his wounds at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.