 On 12 May, Corporal Brent John McCarthy, aged 25, Royal Air Force, and Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, aged 27, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards were killed by small arms fire while deployed as part of a Police Advisory Team to attend a meeting at the local Afghan Uniform Police headquarters near Patrol Base Attal in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.On 26 May, Captain Stephen James Healey, aged 29, from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, commanded the Combined Force Burma reconnaissance platoon and, while conducting a vehicle patrol in the north of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.He was given immediate first aid before being flown to the military hospital at Camp Bastion where, sadly, his death was confirmed.