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Tributes to 'heroic' Royal Marine
2011-05-17 14:12:36
17 May 2011 Last updated at 08:14 Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Tributes to 'heroic' Helmand marine Nigel Dean Mead Marine Dean Mead was killed by a bomb in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province Continue reading the main story UK troops in Afghanistan Military deaths in Afghanistan A family of Afghanistan's fallen Deaths throw spotlight on mission In our own words
The mother of a marine killed by a bomb in Afghanistan says she will have "a broken heart" for the rest of her life.
Marine Dean Mead, of Lima Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, died in Helmand province on Sunday.
Tributes to the 19-year-old from Carmarthen , who was known as "Deano" and was on his first tour of Afghanistan, have been pouring in from family and colleagues.
His mother Amanda called him the "rock that supported me through life".
Marine Mead's death takes the number of British military killed in operations in Afghanistan since 2001 to 365.
Before joining up in October 2008, aged 17, he lived with his mother, Amanda, and sister, Jessica, in Carmarthen.
He studied at Queen Elizabeth High School in Carmarthen.
He was fatally injured by a bomb while searching a compound in the Nad Ali district.
In a direct tribute to her son, his mother said: "You had the most wonderful and warming personality, one that I have never seen in anyone else, nor will ever see again.
"Although you turned out to be a proud and heroic Royal Marine you will always be my little blue-eyed boy.
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