BRITISH TROOPS
British soldiers Lance Cpl. Cameron Mowbury of Hemel Hempstead, England, left, and
LCpl. Robert Beckwith of Baldock, Hertfordshire, England, take a break from training
on their Honda XR 250 motorcycles during a sand storm Tuesday, March 4, 2003, near
their camp in the Kuwaiti desert.
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A British soldier of the Queen's Royal Hussards stands a top his Challenger 2 tank during a
combined arms training exercise to storm enemy trenches in the desert outside Kuwait City,
Thursday March 13, 2003
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British Sergeant Steve Hornsby of Z company, The Royal Fusiliers, test fires a new Minime machine
gun in the Kuwaiti desert in one of the final exercises before moving to the border with Iraq
(news - web sites), March 18, 2003.
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British Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineer (REME) Cfn.
Emma Martin-Law, 24,(R) from Haywards Heath, raises her cap
during a St. Patrick's Day celebration in the Kuwaiti desert,
March 17, 2003. Some 500 Irish Guards donned fresh
Shamrocks imported from Ireland, as the troops get ready for
the final descision to go to war in Iraq
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Members of British 23 Engineer regiment air assault train for dispatch riding on the Kuwait-Iraq
(news - web sites) border, March 15, 2003.
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British ghurka soldiers, a part of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment wait in formation
in the Kuwaiti desert near Iraq (news - web sites)'s border, prior to the visit of Chief of
staff of the British armed forces General Sir Mike Jackson, March 7, 2003
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