1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets, Basra, Iraq, October 2003

Digital photograph by Corporal Dave Liddle, Royal Logistic Corps, Operation TELIC II, 2003.

Soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets involved in security operations around Basra. On 16 and 17 October 2003 British troops mounted security patrols on roads leading into Basra. Heliborne troops set up vehicle checkpoints on more remote roads. The troops in the photograph are waiting to board a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter which is approaching a landing zone.