British Army officer who died in hospital named

538PM GMT seventeen March 2010

Captain Martin Driver Photo MoD/Crown Copyright/PA Wire

The family of Capt Driver, 31, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, pronounced they were ""heartbroken"" by their loss.

He died in Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham on Monday after being harmed by a roadside explosve in the Musa Qala district of Helmand Province on Apr 21.

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He leaves his parents, his fiancee Johanna Sellway and his identical tiwn hermit David.

Capt Driver, creatively from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was on his second debate of Afghanistan and had formerly served in Iraq and Northern Ireland as a reservist with 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

He was severely harmed by an makeshift bomb device whilst on unit in Musa Qala and flown behind to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak for treatment.

His desired ones were at his bedside as he fought for life, but he died at 11.11pm on Monday.

In a matter his family thanked the healing teams who brought him behind to Britain and attempted to save him.

They pronounced "We are sad by the comfortless loss of the dear Martin. He was such a caring immature man who regularly put his family first. He overwhelmed the lives of all who had the payoff to know him.

"He died you do a pursuit he loved. His loyalty and professionalism will sojourn an impulse to all. Martin regularly longed for to be a infantryman and an officer, he became a captain of the Vikings, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment. We are so unapproachable of his efforts.

"His bequest shall never be forgotten. He has overwhelmed so most with his love and compassion. We as his family, similar to others, shall regularly keep him in the hearts."

Capt Driver had complicated Arabic and dictated to try the preference routine to turn a part of of special forces after this year.

Lt Col James Woodham, autocratic military military military officer of 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, paid reverence to a "popular and definitely decent" soldier.

He pronounced "Captain Martin Driver was a still and medium military military military officer for whom the Army was his life. This still extraneous hid a man who was focused and determined. He was one of the strongest captains in the corps and showed the intensity to grasp good things in the Army.

"He was a glorious Infantryman and an even improved officer. He had a poise about him - people of course followed.

"Intelligent, driven, outstandingly fit and with courage and gravitas, he was formulation to try special forces preference this summer and couple of in the corps approaching him to return."

Captain Tom Clarke, a close crony of Capt Driver, described him as "the unqualified and unselfish professional".

He pronounced "It is sworn statement to his impression and suggestion that he survived for so prolonged with such critical injuries, his persistence and robustness display right to the end.

"I will recollect him as a constant and devoted man whose quick mind and wisdom, and his capability to demonstrate them, were never far turn the corner."

Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary, pronounced "I was deeply saddened to listen to the headlines of Captain Martin Driver"s death. He was obviously a rarely valued part of of his association who was an impulse to his men and brought the good of his substantial experience to operations.

"He was harmed autocratic his soldiers as they strove to move larger security to the people of Afghanistan and the UK."

Another dual soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment were killed in an blast in Musa Qala yesterday. Their family groups have been informed.

A sum of 275 British infantry have died in the Afghan dispute given operations began in 2001, twenty-six of them in Musa Qala.

UK forces will palm shortcoming for Musa Qala to the US Marines over the subsequent couple of weeks and redeploy to executive Helmand.