PRIVATE MICHAEL ANTHONY TENCH, aged 18, of A Company, 2nd Battalion The Light Infantry, died on Sunday 21 January 2007 as a result of injuries sustained from an Improvised Explosive Device placed at a roadside in Basrah City,
Southern Iraq.

He was part of a Warrior patrol that had set out from the Shaat Al Arab Hotel, a British Army base in the North of the city, when the device activated. Four other members of the patrol were injured during the incident One of them remains in a very serious condition, the other three soldiers are in a stable condition. 

Private Tench was born in March 1988 and went to school at Hylton Redhouse Comprehensive School in Sunderland. In his spare time he was a keen and talented boxer and regularly trained at Marley Potts Gym in Sunderland.