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English: A soldier of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (Royal Welch Fusiliers), sorts through a captured cache of bomb making equipment in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of lives, both British and Afghan, were saved thanks to the efforts of Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (Royal Welch Fusiliers).

In two operations just a week apart they uncovered some of the largest quantities of IEDs and IED components found in theatre to date.

In Nad-e-Ali, central Helmand they discovered 260 IEDs, 38 detonators, 57 weapons varying from anti-tank mines to rocket propelled grenades to AK47 machine guns and grenades.

Eight kilograms of homemade explosives were found hidden underneath piles of dry poppy and fertiliser sacks containing approximately 165 IED components, which had the potential to make hundreds of IEDs.

The troops from A Company (A COY) and B Company (B COY) made the find as they were flushing out insurgents from their areas of operation.

As the Welsh warriors from B Company got close to the enemy positions they came under a barrage of small arms fire. Taking cover where they could, the troops quickly set about identifying the enemy’s firing positions. When they were unable to do so they called in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

  • Organization: Army
  • Object Name: 090715-3400-NUI-RCS- 0145
  • Category: ARM
  • Supplemental Categories: Afghanistan, Operations, Weapons
  • Keywords: Bomb, Weapon, Equipment, Parts, Components, Searching, Inspecting, Sorting, Army, CIED, Counter, IED, Improvised, Explosive, Device, Operation, Op, Campaign, Herrick, Afghanistan, Afganistan, Helmand, Personnel, Soldier, Male, 1 Royal Welsh, Fusiliers
  • Country: Afghanistan
Date Taken on 22 March 2010
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