A "selfless and kind-hearted" Scots soldier who collapsed during the week of a record-breaking heatwave died during a "non-operational incident", the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed. Sapper Connor Morrison, 20, was stationed at Woodbridge in Suffolk, when died in Ipswich on July 23.
The soldier, of 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment, was taken to Ipswich Hospital by ambulance two days earlier, after he was reported to have suffered breathing difficulties at Rock Barracks in Sutton Heath, Suffolk. At the time, the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said it was called to "reports of a man with breathing problems", and Suffolk Police said it received a report from the ambulance service that "a male had collapsed".
Earlier that week, on July 19, a new UK record high temperature of 40.3C was recorded in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. The Defence Safety Authority, Suffolk Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation into the East Kilbride man's death in August.
