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Afghanistan fallen: 'We got to say goodbye'

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 been killed in the conflict.

Private Richard Hunt served with the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh.

On 13 August he was caught in an explosion while on patrol in Helmand Province.

Private Hunt was airlifted back to the UK but died in Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham.

His mother Hazel was with him when he died.

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