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They are remembered not as a statistic, but as 457 lives cut short on the front lines of Afghanistan.

These are the faces of those who paid the ultimate price. For more than a decade, British soldiers served and fought alongside Nato allies, facing daily danger during the conflict — facts that cannot be rewritten or erased.

The sacrifice of those who never returned home has been brought back into focus after Donald Trump claimed allied forces “stayed a little off the front lines” during the conflict on Thursday (22 January).