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 what we were sent out to do. It is a shame that some of these losses 
 are not being recognised. 
  
  
 Rifleman Dwayne McIntyre 
 Age 25, North London 
  
 When we were under regular attack, you cannot really relax at all. At 
 least at the palace, we had proper buildings where we could take 
 shelter. When we got ambushed at the PJCC (a central police base), we 
 were out in the open and you feel the danger. 
  
  
 Corporal Lucas Farrell 
 Age 23, Liverpool 
  
 [One night] we had left Basra Palace on a supply convoy to the PJCC in 
 Bulldogs, Warriors and military trucks. As we were unloading the 
 supplies in the base, we came under attack from mortars and rockets. It 
 was pretty fierce. An officer who had been briefing us one minute was 
 then killed. We were stunned, like, shocked. 
  
 But then there was no more time to think about that. We were told that 
 they [the militias] would know when we went out and that they would be 
 waiting for us. And that's what happened. As we left, there was firing 
 from all sides. We were getting repeatedly ambushed, they were hitting 
 the vehicles [with] small arms, RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades]. What 
 they were trying to do was hit the ones in the rear and separate the 
 convoy and trap some of us. There was a lot, a lot of shooting. I don't 
 know how much was fired in total, I was using a GPMG (General Purpose 
 Machine Gun) and I myself fired around 600 rounds. 
  
 We drove straight back to Basra Palace with the officer's body " then 
 you thought about what had happened, and it was very sad. 
  
  
  
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