Resident of Durga Chowk. From 69 Gurkha Field Squadron, 36 Royal Engineers, killed while trying to clear mines and booby traps from a school in Negrovce, 20 miles west of Pristina, Kosovo. Two civilians were killed in the blast and a third injured.
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Sargeant Balram Raj
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Evans & Raj
From the BBC report of the deaths: "...the first Nato fatalities since the al...
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Lieutenant Gareth John Maurice Evans
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