A Scots soldier has died at the age of 20 after collapsing during the week of a record-breaking heatwave, sparking an Army investigation.
Sapper Connor Morrison, originally from East Kilbride, was reported to have suffered breathing difficulties on July 21 while training with 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment in Suffolk. An air ambulance, land ambulance and ambulance officer vehicle attended and Sapper Morrison was taken to Ipswich Hospital by land ambulance.
Tragically, the young soldier died two days later on July 23 at the age of 20. Earlier that week, on July 19, a new UK record high temperature of 40.3C was recorded in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, around 100 miles away.
