Matty Hull

...his still-functional radio. Trooper Finney then dragged a badly wounded L/Cpl Tudball from the burning vehicle before attempting to recover Hull in the second Scimitar, but being beaten back by exploding munitions and heat. Trooper Finney was...

In this article: United States, Blues and Royals, 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues And Royals Friendly Fire Incident, Harriet Harman, United Kingdom, Household Cavalry, and 190th Fighter Squadron

Lance-Corporal of Horse Matthew Richard "Matty" Hull (31 March 1976 - 28 March 2003) was a British soldier from D Squadron, The Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry. L/CoH Hull was killed in a friendly fire incident whilst deployed...

In this article: Blues and Royals, Operation Telic, 190th Fighter Squadron, A-10 Thunderbolt II, Gau-8 Avenger, and Gus Kohntopp

...late 2006 or early 2007, Kohntopp was promoted to Colonel. British FV107 Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicle of the type in which Matty Hull was killed. On March 28, 2003 two 190th A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, flown by a major and a...

In this article: Gus Kohntopp, The Sun, United States Air Force, United Kingdom, 190th Fighter Squadron, A-10 Thunderbolt II, University of Idaho, Household Cavalry, and F-117 Nighthawk

...Idaho Air National Guard attacked vehicles of the British Army in Iraq. The attack killed one soldier Lance Corporal of horse Matty Hull and wounded several others. Trooper Christopher Finney was awarded the George Cross, Britain's highest...

In this article: 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho, 189th Airlift Squadron, Department of Defense, and Air National

...35, and trooper David Clarke, 19, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, were killed by British tank fire in 2003 near Basra. Lance corporal Matty Hull, 25, of the Blues and Royals, was killed after US A10 anti-tank aircraft attacked his convoy...

In this article: 3 Commando Brigade, Taliban, NATO, and Queen's Royal Lancers

Andrew Walker was the coroner at the Matty Hull inquest A coroner has called it "inexcusable" that US authorities failed to release evidence about the first UK casualties of the Iraq war. Andrew Walker was speaking at the reopening of an...

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...of honest mistake," said Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker, concluding his probe into the death of Lance Cpl. Matty Hull, 25. Walker, who had earlier blasted an "appalling" lack of cooperation from the U.S. military, said he...

In this article: United States, Pentagon, London, and 190th Fighter Squadron

...permission to open fire on the British tanks, which the pilots had mistaken for Iraqi vehicles. But the Hull family believes that questions he was asked about communications and procedure during the incident have been censored. The...

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...Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker made clear he was doing so only in the interest of speeding up the inquest into the death of Lance Cpl. Matty Hull, who was killed when his convoy was strafed by a U.S. warplane in southern Iraq on March 28, 2003.

In this article: United States, The Pentagon, U.K., Iraq, Oxfordshire, and Oxford

...Andrew Walker said, however, that he would publish a transcript of the video as evidence in the civilian inquest into Lance Cpl. Matty Hull's death. The case has strained relations between the U.S. Defense Department and its British...

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