Olaf Schmid
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Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid, GC was a British Army bomb disposal expert who was killed in action in the Afghanistan conflict. Schmid was posthumously awarded the George Cross after he made
George Cross and its ribbon bar
Operation Panther's Claw
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Operation Panchai Palang, or Panther's Claw, was a coalition military operation of the War in Afghanistan in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. It aimed to secure various canal and river crossi
Olaf Schmid
…as a bomb disposal specialist. He served in Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and Kosovo before being sent to Afghanistan in June 2009. He arrived during Operation Panther's Claw in Helmand Province. On 31 October 2009 Schmid was killed instantly when a device he was defusing in Sangin, Helmand Province exploded. After Schmid's…
Welsh Guards engage Taliban forces on 27 June 2009 as part of Operation Panther's Claw.