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17 years on. We remember Sergeant Lee Andrew “Andy” Houltram, SBS

by Carl Upshon 03 Sep 2026

29 August 2009. Near Gereshk, Helmand.

A Royal Marine. 

A Special Boat Service operator. 

33 years old.

Andy was from Cowie, Stirlingshire. He came up through the Corps, passed selection, and spent more than a decade in the SBS. On a previous Afghan tour he received the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service. After his death he was Mentioned in Dispatches.

The official record is simple and brutal: he was killed by an explosion on operations targeting a Taliban bomb-making factory. The mission succeeded. 

He did not come home.

Hundreds packed Dunblane Cathedral for his funeral. His name sits on a tablet at the Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge:

Forever in our hearts and minds.
By Strength and Guile.

He was described by those who served with him as a legend in the unit — a Jock with charm, hard as nails, the kind of bloke the younger lads looked up to.

Sergeant Lee Andrew Houltram.

Royal Marines. Special Boat Service.

19 April 1976 – 29 August 2009.

We will remember him.

 

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