 Corporal Simon Hornby, from 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was caught in an explosion on foot patrol in Helmand on 20 December.Lance Corporal David Kirkness and Rifleman James Brown both from the 3rd Battalion, The Rifles were killed by a suspected suicide bomber near Sangin in Helmand Province on Tuesday 15 December 2009.This raised UK fatalities since 2001 in this theatre to 239, 102 of these sustained in 2009.