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Col Garnet R Derby
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Name: Army Lt. Col. Garnet R. Derby
Age: 44
From: Missoula, Mont.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Lt. Col. Garnet R. Derby died Feb. 9 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed were Sgt. Joshua A. Ward, Pfc. Albert R. Jex and Pfc. Jonathan R. Roberge.
Died: February 09, 2009
Battalion commander killed in Iraq
By Michelle Tan
Staff writer
Age: 44
From: Missoula, Mont.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Lt. Col. Garnet R. Derby died Feb. 9 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed were Sgt. Joshua A. Ward, Pfc. Albert R. Jex and Pfc. Jonathan R. Roberge.
Died: February 09, 2009
Battalion commander killed in Iraq
By Michelle Tan
Staff writer
Lt. Col. Garnet R. Derby, commander of 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, was killed Monday in a suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq that also killed three of his soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter.
Derby, 44, of Missoula, Mont., was the 19th Army lieutenant colonel killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war and is believed to be one of only three battalion commanders killed by hostile fire in that war. The other soldiers killed in the attack were Sgt. Joshua A. Ward, 30, of Scottsville, Ky. Pfc. Albert R. Jex, 23, of Phoenix, Ariz. and Pfc. Jonathan R. Roberge, 22, of Leominster, Mass.
The soldiers belonged to Derby’s personal...
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the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas;
Incident
Army Lt. Col. Garnet R. Derby died Feb. 9 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed were Sgt. Joshua A. Ward, Pfc. Albert R. Jex and Pfc. Jonathan R. Roberge.
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Col Garnet R Derby
2009-03-06
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.