Article: Military funeral for SAS soldier.

Feb 22, 2002 (The West Australian

ABIX via COMTEX) -- A Special Air Service soldier killed in a land mine blast in Afghanistan will be afforded a military funeral in Perth. Sergeant Andrew Russell, leaves behind a widow, Kylie, a nurse at Fremantle Hospital, and two-week-old daughter he never got to see before his death. Russell was killed when the military scout car in which he was travelling hit a land mine in southern Afghanistan on 17 February 2002, the first Australian military casualty in a war zone since the Vietnam war. Former SAS soldiers said the close-knit SAS community in Perth would care for his family. A military funeral has been scheduled for late ...

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