 His dog, Theo, suffered a seizure and died en route back to their base in Helmand Province.On 9 March, Lance Corporal Stephen McKee, aged 27, of the 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment died when the vehicle he was travelling in struck a roadside bomb.On 18 March, Private Daniel Prior, aged 27, of the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.