They went as fresh-faced young men and women, some of them barely out of school, to deliver stability and peace. But 453 British soldiers who travelled to Afghanistan never returned. The youngest was William Aldridge, deployed three days after his 18th birthday. He died on July 10, 2009. The lives of the young Britons killed fighting the Taliban had been commemorated on memorial walls in Camp Bastion, but as the UK's campaign in the country ended yesterday, it was confirmed they had been dismantled. The Army insisted the decision was not because of fears the memorials would be defaced or destroyed. But top-ranking soldiers and relatives of those who were killed said there was an obvious risk they would be 'desecrated' by a resurgent Taliban.dailymail
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