 On 1 August, L/Sgt Dale Alanzo McCallum, aged 31, from 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, shot and killed in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand Province.On 7 August, Ken McGonigle, aged 50, a former member of the RUC, saved the life of one of the most senior US officers in Afghanistan when he was killed.He was working in Musa Qal'eh, Helmand province with private security company New Century, when he exchanged fire with two escaped Taliban prisoners who were taking aim with a grenade launcher at a US special forces helicopter leaving a base.