The British death toll reached three figures today after the 100th soldier to die in Iraq was killed by a road side bomb. Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard, 31, a soldier from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards died in a blast in Umm Qasr, Basra province. Of the 100 dead 77 died in combat operations. The US has lost 2,243 in the same time period. One hundred and three other members of the ‘coalition of the willing’ have died in the 1,048 day conflict.[Iraq casualty list /CNN / BBC ]
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