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Service men and women who are fighting abroad should be provided with “some kind of proper insurance” by the government, the investment director of Buckles Investment Services has said.

Richard Eling of the independent financial advisory said that people engaged in the war effort should not have to seek their own insurance cover when going abroad with the army and that the government should pay for their policies.

“It’s a bit rich to send someone to Iraq on £18,000 a year and then ask them to pay for their own insurance cover,” Mr Eling commented.

A total of 176 British soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war in Iraq.

Mr Eling has said that many soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and used the private insurance company Pax have not had everything covered by their subsequent claims that they thought would be included when they bought the insurance policy.

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