Fed: Australians killed in the Iraq conflict

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2006
Fed: Australians killed in the Iraq conflict

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Australian private contractors killed in Iraq



* New Zealand-born Steve Gilchrist, 33, of Brisbane killed instantly when his armoured
vehicle was hit by an armour-piercing shell as he was escorting a convoy of trucks. He
was employed by the private British security firm ArmorGroup.



* Jon Hadaway, 34, of Melbourne died on August 15, 2006, in Germany from injuries he
sustained in an August 3 bombing. He worked as a security guard for ArmorGroup based in
Umm Qasr in southern Iraq.



* Wayne Schulz, 34, of Queensland died on June 8, 2006, when the armoured vehicle he
was travelling in was destroyed by a bomb, 300km north of Baghdad. Mr Schulz had been
working in Iraq as an infrastructure security officer with ArmorGroup.



* Chris Ahmelman, 34, of Queensland was killed with two others in an ambush by insurgents
on their way to Baghdad airport on April 21, 2005. He had been working as a private security
contractor for British firm Edinburgh Risk and Security Management.



Other Australians killed in Iraq:

* Private Jake Kovco, 25, killed when he accidentally shot himself in the head in his
barracks on April 21, 2006.

* Paul Pardoel, 35, a former Royal Australian Air Force officer who had been serving
with the British Royal Air Force since 2002, was one of 10 servicemen killed when a British
Hercules C-130 crashed north of Baghdad in January 2005.

* Australian resident, University of Baghdad professor Kays Juma, 72, was killed on
March 25, 2006, by a security guard from a private firm after the vehicle he was travelling
in failed to stop at a Baghdad checkpoint.

* Australian ABC cameraman Paul Moran, 39, of Adelaide, was killed in a suicide car
bombing in northern Iraq in March, 2003.

* Australian sound recordist Jeremy Little, 27, died on in July, 2003, after the US
military vehicle he was in travelling in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. He had
been working for US network, NBC.

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