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Afghanistan fallen: 'I have to keep going'

One hundred British service personnel have been killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

BBC news has spoken to the relatives of some of the soldiers who have already been killed in the conflict.

Lance Corporal Richard Brandon from Worcestershire died aged 24 doing a job his family says he loved.

He was killed instantly when the vehicle he was driving was hit by improvised explosive device.

He left his fiancee Emma-Jayne Webster, two stepsons and a three-year-old daughter.

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