'Wonderful husband' - Isobel Jones and Captain David Jones killed in Iraq

Captain David Martyn Jones served in the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Aged 29, he and his wife Isobel had their home in Louth, Lincolnshire.

Captain Jones was killed while involved in humanitarian duties and his wife said: "I am extremely proud of Dai. He was a wonderful husband who served his country with great courage."

The Welsh officer was killed and two other soldiers injured when their military ambulance was ambushed in a remote-controlled bomb attack described by an Army spokesman as "a direct attack on a clearly-marked ambulance without any justification."

Captain Jones joined the Army in December 1991 as a private soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was later selected as a potential officer.

He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1999 and later transferred to the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

He volunteered to deploy to the Iraq on Operation Telic where he had been working on civil-military cooperation projects in Basra to reconstruct the city after the years of neglect and repression.

'A courageous officer'

His duties included overseeing the distribution of humanitarian aid and helping the Iraqi communities establish local councils.

His commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca said: "Dai Jones was a courageous, warm-hearted and very popular officer who will be sorely missed.

"The battalion's thoughts are very much with his family, and especially his wife Izzy."

The Queen's Lancashire's are a mechanised infantry battalion, currently stationed in Catterick.

The regiment is over 300 years old and has more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.

In recent years it has served in Bosnia and Northern Ireland.