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Konstandinos Erik "Kosta" Scurfield (22 September 1989 – 2 March 2015) was a former British Royal Marine who, in December 2014, left for Syria and joined the Kurdish YPG, a militia fighting against the Islamic State. Scurfield, who was known by the Kurdish nom de guerre Sehid Kemal, was killed on 2 March 2015, at the age of 25. He was the first British citizen to be killed in the conflict.

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