So proud and ready to serve his country

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: August 3, 2006| Author: JANE BRADLEY AND GARETH ROSE | Copyright information

ROSS NICHOLLS was a teenager soldier bursting with pride when he signed up for the Royal Corps of Signals in Edinburgh.

Eight years after this picture was taken and on a final mission in the dangerous Helmund province of Afghanistan, he died in a missile attack on an army jeep.

Today, his mother and gran spoke of their pride in the Edinburgh- born soldier and his gran hit out at the "needless" war that cost his life and those of two other soldiers in an attack on Tuesday.

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