 On 16 January, Kingsman David Robert Shaw, aged 23, of 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's, sustained a gunshot wound when his checkpoint came under fire from insurgents in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province on 13 January 2013.He died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham three days later from wounds sustained in Afghanistan.On 26 March, Lance Corporal Jamie Webb, aged 30, of 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died of wounds sustained during an insurgent attack on his base in the Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand.