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Article: 'I want to be back in Afghanistan. I don't want our mate to have died for nothing' A Derbyshire soldier has spoken for the first time about the explosion that blasted his vehicle into the air and killed his friend and colleague. Private Tom Wilde, of Somercotes, was driving a Snatch Land Rover that was hit by a Taliban landmine in southern Afghanistan, killing Drummer Thomas Wright, of Ripley. Here, he tells Martin Naylor about the ordeal.
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- Derby Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 27, 2007
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A Derbyshire soldier has spoken for the first time about the
explosion that blasted his vehicle into the air and killed his friend
and colleague. Private Tom Wilde, of Somercotes, was driving a Snatch
Land Rover that was hit by a Taliban landmine in southern
Afghanistan, killing Drummer Thomas Wright, of Ripley. Here, he tells
Martin Naylor about the ordeal.
As diesel poured down his back and his Land Rover lay on its roof
engulfed in flames, Private Tom Wilde called out desperately for his
colleague.
Their vehicle had just run over a Taliban landmine.
But as the others involved in the explosion lay screaming, Drummer
Thomas Wright was silent.
Pte Wilde feared the worst.
The 22-year-old ...