In Pictures
Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards and members of the Afghan Police patrol through the bazaar in Sangin [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
A soldier from the Coldstream Guards out on patrol [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
An Afghan child at the bazaar in Sangin [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards patrol through the bazaar in Sangin [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards take a well-earned rest from their patrol through the bazaar in Sangin at an Afghan police base [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
An Afghan child at the bazaar in Sangin looks down the sights of a Guardsman's rifle [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Afghan locals at the bazaar in Sangin [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Lance Corporal Tom Hutchinson directs a village elder to the location of a shura [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards on patrol around Kopak near Babaji [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards on patrol around Kopak near Babaji [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Drummer Ceri Orwin of the Coldstream Guards provides cover for a sniper during a patrol around Kopak near Babaji [Picture: Sgt Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]