An infantry soldier in the Rifles regiment died on Tuesday while on a training exercise in the Brecon Beacons mountains area of Wales, three years after three others died in the same area.
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A Scottish infantry soldier has died while on a training exercise, from suspected heat exhaustion.
The soldier, from Infantry Training Centre Catterick, died while conducting pre-course training for the Platoon Sergeants’ Battle Course.
The family of a superfit soldier who died during a training exercise in the Brecon Beacons has been described by his grandfather as the “greatest grandson you could ask for”.
In 2013, three Special Forces soldiers died while on training in the Brecon Beacons during a blistering heat wave.
The three soldiers’ deaths were due to a catalogue of “serious mistakes and systemic failures”, an inquest into the deaths ruled.
Reservists Lance Corporal Edward Maher, Lance Corporal Craig Roberts and Corporal James Dunsby were carrying 50lbs (22kg) of equipment when they died undertaking 16-mile march in July 2013.
Hunt found that there was insufficient water, that the most accessible hospitals were not identified in a risk assessment and that Global Positioning System trackers used by the soldiers were not fit for objective.
The MoD will undertake a “full investigation” into the incident, said junior defence minister Harriett Baldwin, who called the news “very sad”.
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokesperson added: “Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a male soldier that occurred on the Brecon Beacons on the morning of 19 July”.
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In March 2016, the Health and Safety Executive announced that it was administer a Crown Censure to the MoD over the deaths. How on earth have the right lessons not been learned?’ The safety of our personnel is our absolute priority and, while deaths in training are rare, any death is a tragedy. “I feel sure that the military will do everything in its power to ensure this does not happen again, and my thoughts are with the soldier’s family, friends and colleagues at this hard time”.
