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Captain David Hicks, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed at Forward Operating Base Inkerman in August 2007. He was 26. He was awarded the Military Cross, posthumously, by the Queen.

Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher, from 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand in May 2009. He was 19.

David's parents Lesley and Alun came into the studio along with Cyrus's Mum, Helena, to talk to Andrew Peach about how the Queen's death has brought back some of the memories from when their sons died in Afghanistan.