FOB Lyddiard (ANA)

Government sources

Evicting the Taliban, Report by Capt Douglas McGuire, photos by Cpl Neil Ruskin, Army, 29 May 2008.

Capt Rachel Brennan and RSM WO1 Steven Di Tullio at FOB Lyddiard.

Analysis

Australian Army Turns Over Camp Lyddiard, [Video], LiveLeak, [accessed 30 August 2008]

A new Afghan National Army (ANA) patrol base in Oruzgan Province that was constructed by Reconstruction Task Force Three (RTF-3) has been left with a lasting Aussie connection. The Afghan troops now occupying the base and their Dutch counterparts have agreed that Patrol Base Khyber will now carry the local name of Camp Lyddiard, in honour of Sergeant Michael Lyddiard who was seriously wounded by an Improvised Explosive Device last year.

Australian soldier tells of bomb injury, The Age, 16 January 2008.

An Australian digger who lost an eye and part of an arm when a bomb exploded in Afghanistan is looking forward to having a beer with his mates when they return home. Sergeant Michael Lyddiard lost his right eye and lower right arm when an improvised explosive device he was trying to defuse detonated on November 3 last year.
 

30 August 2008