 On 27 November, Rifleman Sheldon Steel, aged 20, of 5th Battalion The Rifles, was killed by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in Babaji, in the Lashkar Gah area of Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province.On 8 December, Sapper Elijah Bond, aged 24, from 35 Engineer Regiment, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on Thursday 8 December 2011.This was as a result of wounds sustained when he was injured in a blast from an improvised explosive device on 6 December.