Honouring our soldiers

There is something about the coverage of the death of Sarah Bryant in Afghanistan that strikes me as being a bit patronising both to her memory and to women in general. Corporal Bryant was a soldier and died with three other soldiers, Corporal Sean Reeve, Lance Corporal Richard Larkin and Paul Stout in the same roadside bomb yet her three comrades barely merit a mention as if their deaths are somehow less important or don't really matter.

So far 106 servicemen have died in Afghanistan, mostly in combat, and those who died on our behalf should be honoured equally as soldiers not just because they happened to be a woman.