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Former soldiers recall Britain's deadliest day as final Allied troops depart Afghanistan


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Sherlock, then 21, should have been among the men heading out that morning but had been struck down by severe heatstroke the previous day and ordered by medics to remain in the base.
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Instead he chatted with the men getting ready, one of whom, 20-year-old Rifleman Danny Simpson, was Sherlock’s best friend in C Company, 2nd Battalion, the Rifles. He had lost his helmet and Sherlock agreed to lend him his even though it contravened regulations and sat awkwardly on Simpson’s far smaller head. ....

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