 On 30 April, Corporal William Savage, aged 30, Fusilier Samuel Flint, aged 21, both of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Private Robert Hetherington, aged 25, of 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, 51st Highland, were killed when their Mastiff struck an IED.These were the first British deaths in a Mastiff armoured vehicle.On 15 November, Lance Corporal James Brynin, aged 22, an intelligence Corps soldier attached to 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic warfare), was killed after coming under fire in Nahr-e Saraj.