Olaf Schmid: the warrior killed by a bomb on his last day in Afghanistan

446PM GMT eighteen March 2010

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According to his autocratic officers, he saved "countless lives" during his five-month debate with the Royal Logistic Corps in the country, and "stared genocide in the face on a every day basis".

As well as receiving piece in Operation Panther"s Claw prior to long after his attainment in theatre, he found 31 makeshift bomb inclination during a singular operation to transparent a highway nearby Sangin in August.

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He was the third IED ordering consultant to be killed that year between a relentless Taliban bombing debate that had caused scores of deaths prior to and since.

His eagerness to take on the greatest risk faced by British forces warranted him a little of the warmest difference ever seen between the large eulogies to the Afghan fallen.

Lt Col Robert Thomson, autocratic military officer of 2nd Bn The Rifles, described 30-year-old Staff Sgt Schmid as "simply the bravest and majority bold man I have ever met".

"Under relentless IED and small arms attacks he stood taller than the tallest," he said.

He left at the back of a mother Christina, along with a stepson, Laird, elderly six, along with large friends in his hometown of Truro in Cornwall.

Mrs Schmid, 34, described him during his wake at Truro Cathedral as her "warrior".

"He was my most appropriate crony and essence mate. The suffering of losing him is overwhelming," she said. "I take joy meaningful he saved large lives with his tough work. I am so unapproachable of him."