In Memory Of

MCCULLOCH, LUKE EDWARD PATRICK

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 1984-11-30
Service No:
 25136150
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
Unit:
 1
Regiment:
 Royal Irish Regiment
Date of Death:
 2006-09-06
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Sangin, Helmand Province, he and other soldiers were sleeping out in the open because of not enough bunkers, and he came off sentry duty and was sitting where he slept and was eating when he was hit by shrapnel from a mortar.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Cremated - Alternative Commemoration
Cemetery:
 ARMED FORCES MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM
Localitly:
 Staffordshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Gary Brandt and Elaine McCulloch-Brandt, and brother of Sebastian McCulloch-Brandt. From Cape Town, South Africa. Left South African when he was 14 years old and finished his schooling at the Grammar School in Corsham he also attended the Catholic school in Slough for a year before moving to Corsham