who was the first soldier to die in the iraq war?

Answer 1

If you mean the current war (originally coined "Operation Iraqi Liberation" and renammed "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by the U.S. administration) which began on March 20, 2003, and you are asking about U.S. and coalitian troops:

"One of the first U.S. servicemen killed in combat in Iraq was not a citizen of the country for which he sacrificed his life."

Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez (22, Hawthorne, California) killed in combat in southern Iraq on March 21, 2003.
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All of the following were killed on March 21, 2003 when a U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter crashed in Kuwait near the Iraqi border :

Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Waters-Bey (29, Baltimore, Maryland)

Maj. Jason Ward (34, Plymouth,England)

Warrant Officer Second Class Mark Stratford (39, Hometown of record not available)

Mechanic (Comm.) Second Class Ian Seymour (28, Poole, Dorset, England)

Cpl. Brian Kennedy (25, Houston, Texas)

Sholto Hedenskog (27, Pretoria, South Africa)

Sgt. Les Hehir (34, Poole, Dorset)

Capt. Philip Stuart Guy (29, North Yorkshire, England)

Lance Bombadier Llywelyn Karl Evans (24, Llandudno, Wales)

Colour Sgt. John Cecil (36, Plymouth, England)

Capt. Ryan Beaupre (30, Bloomington, Illinois)

Maj. Jay Aubin (36, Waterville, Maine)

Also killed March 21, 2003:

1st Lt. Therrel Shane Childers (30, Saucier, Mississippi) shot and killed during an assault on an oil pumping station southern Iraq.


FYI: On May 1, 2003, Pfc. Jesse A. Givens drowned in the desert after his tank crashed through a berm and fell into a canal off the Euphrates River.

He was the 139th of at least 567 U.S. troops to die since the war began.

He was the first of 44 Fort Carson soldiers to die in Iraq.

On the same day Givens died, his commander-in-chief President George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier thousands of miles away and declared an end to major combat operations.

Today is July 21, 2006.

According to a CNN count, there have been 2,782 coalition deaths, 2,556 Americans, two Australians, 114 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, three Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 31 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of July 20, 2006.

Answer 2

On January 17, 1991, the first night of the Gulf War, Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher was shot down over Iraq. He became the conflict's first American casualty.

His body has never been found. Pentagon can't confirm if he is dead or alive.

Answer 3

first man-Jesse Givens
first woman-Lori Ann Piestewa

Answer 4

I think the more important question is...who will be the last?