A New Zealand man working for a private security firm in Iraq has been killed in a violent attack on the convoy he was guarding.
Steve Gilchrist, 33, who moved to Brisbane in 2001, was killed instantly when his armoured vehicle was hit by a shell as he was escorting a convoy of trucks.
He joined the Australian army before beginning work in Iraq with private British security firm Armor-Group.
Before that, Gilchrist had spent 10 years in the New Zealand army's infantry, working his way to corporal. He had served in East Timor.
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His body will be transported back to Brisbane by the New Zealand government.