This is a soldier’s diary. A story, told from the frontline in Afghanistan. Everything you read is real.

It tells the story of the men of checkpoint ‘Qudrat’, 3 Para, or as they named themselves –“the lost tribe”.

The 353 Trust has been given permission to share this, so you can recognise the importance of what the young men and women of this country have achieved, and to help raise money for the injured and the families of the fallen.

What were you doing on the day Pte.C.Burtenshaw wrote today’s entry? Find out what was in the news back home and more on the 353 Diary blog.

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23rd January

Chris didn’t write a diary entry today. However, if you like what you’ve read so far, please help us support those effected by the conflict by donating what you can below.

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On this day in history
23 January

1989

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan.

1973

Nixon announces peace settlement reached in Paris.

1971

Britain allowed to sell arms to South Africa.

1957

Toy company Wham-O produces first Frisbees.

1955

Fourteen people die and dozens are injured when an express train travelling from York to Bristol derails at Sutton Coldfield station.

1941

Lindbergh to Congress: Negotiate with Hitler.

1937

In Moscow, 17 leading Communists went on trial, accused of participating in a plot engineered by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.

1922

14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes.

1907

Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first person of Native American ancestry to serve in the U.S Senate.

1870

Colonel Eugene Baker orders his men to attack a sleeping camp of peaceful Blackfeet along the Marias River in northern Montana.

1849

Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming America's first woman doctor.

1556

An earthquake in Shaanxi, China, kills an estimated 830,000 people.

Hiya mate,

Cheers for your email, and thanks for checking that out should be good mate, and it was a good excuse just to go out on the piss in Paris that wasn’t it, and how much they love a game called wordup lol there nuts aint they!

Good to hear the united score 5 nil - mega looks like were on form. Anyways everything cool here weather warming up in the day which is nice nights still stupidly cold but not in that doss bag of mine ha ha, anyways have fun in whatever country i can’t spell your in lol.

lots of love
xx

About The Diary

This is the real diary of a soldier who fought on the frontline in Afghanistan. In his own words, Pte.C.Burtenshaw 3011 6964 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, writes a brutally honest account of his experiences, not just as his therapy, but for his children.

The Diary Of My Afghanistan Tour 2010/2011, portrays the human element of the Afghanistan conflict to help those back home understand, that ‘as much as we love of our jobs and being out here, we are all of us, still human.’

353 is not a number

It is a person. It is inspired by Conrad Lewis. Who became the 353rd soldier in the theatre of Afghanistan to give up everything for what he believed in.

353 is a charitable trust with the aim of helping members of the military community by delivering long-term support to a variety of charities, soldiers and their families. To make as big a difference as possible through partnerships with other organisations. This enables us to achieve our objective of providing a career and income within 353 for those affected by military conflict.

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