In Afghanistan

S1, E3: This episode focuses on the life of the soldier – what’s it like to live on Britain’s front line at the Now Zad base. It’s at Now Zad that the Royal Anglians suffered their first casualty, Private Chris Gray, killed during a fierce fire fight with Taliban fighters in May 2007. Ross meets his mother Helen Gray and talks to her about how it feels to have lost her son to the conflict.