In Pictures
Soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh cross a waterway during Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
A member of the UK Combat Camera Team shows a group of Afghan children his video camera [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Soldiers from F Company (Fire Support), 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, muster during Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
A soldier from F Company (Fire Support), 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, uses a quiet period during the operation to get some valuable sleep [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Soldiers from F Company (Fire Support), 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, play their part in Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh's Fire Support Company in a muddy field during Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh's Fire Support Company secure a field during Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan National Army-led patrol takes place in an area of Nad 'Ali previously under Taliban control [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan National Army-led patrol takes place in an area of Nad 'Ali previously under Taliban control [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh's Fire Support Company searches for improvised explosive devices during a patrol in Nad 'Ali [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan National Army-led patrol takes place in an area of Nad 'Ali previously under Taliban control [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Major Richard Gregory, Officer Commanding 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh's Fire Support Company, on patrol during Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Sergeant James Steele, an Army Air Corps Forward Air Controller attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, takes a break during patrols [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan soldier greets a local village elder attending a shura with British and Afghan forces [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan soldier rests while ANA colleagues and British troops from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh engage with local villagers [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Afghan villagers attend a shura organised by Afghan and UK forces in a freshly-secured compound in Nad 'Ali [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh's Fire Support Company consult a map ahead of a joint patrol with their Afghan partners [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afgan-led patrol prepares to push out from a secured compound into unfamiliar territory [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
An Afghan-led patrol cautiously pushes out from a secured compound into unfamiliar territory [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
A soldier of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh surveys the area of operations from his protected position on the roof of a fortified compound [Picture: Staff Sergeant Mark Jones, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Lieutenant John Sanders of Force Protection Troop Command gives logistic orders to troops of the Close Support Logistic Regiment at Camp Bastion ahead of a resupply mission [Picture: Staff Sergeant Will Craig, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Private Arjun Gurung (left) and his team from the Close Support Logistic Regiment form a chain at Camp Bastion to help with the loading of resupplies bound for the front line [Picture: Staff Sergeant Will Craig, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
At Camp Bastion, men and women of the Close Support Logistic Regiment pull together to load vehicles with food and water bound for front line forces on Operation MOSHTARAK [Picture: Staff Sergeant Will Craig, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]