Alan J. Burgess
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Age: 24
From: Landaff, N.H.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Brigade, New Hampshire Army National Guard, Woodsville, N.H.
Incident: Army Spc. Alan J. Burgess was killed Oct. 15 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: October 15, 2004
N.H. National Guardsman killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LANDAFF, N.H. — A New Hampshire National Guardsman died in Iraq after a car bomb went off near his patrol Friday, authorities said. Spc. Alan J. Burgess was 24.
Burgess, of Landaff, was on patrol as a vehicle gunner in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when he was struck by shrapnel around 1:30 p.m. local time, according to a statement released by Gov. Craig Benson on Saturday night. He died at a Mosul field hospital of severe head injuries.
It was the second death of a North Country soldier this week. Spc. Jeremy Regnier, 22, of Littleton, was killed when his armored vehicle drove over a bomb during a patrol outside Baghdad on Wednesday morning.
Burgess was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Forward, which is headquartered in Berlin and has armories in six North Country towns. Burgess joined the state National Guard in 2002. He was a member...