A soldier serving with the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment stands guard over several hundred Iraqi POWs, Iraq, March 2003

Digital photograph taken by Warrant Officer 2nd Class Giles Penfound, Army Media Operations, Operation TELIC, 24 March 2003.

The prisoners of war were held at a transit base where they received food, water and medical attention as required. They were then moved on to a safer area away from the conflict.