article_snippet: Ex-Royal Marine Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, 25, was hit by mortar fire while fighting alongside Kurdish forces near the Syrian city of Qamishli.
article_snippet: Konstandinos Erik Scurfield (kneeling) pictured with Jordan Matson (second from right), a former US soldier .
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield (pictured), one whose fellow-fighters said whose fellow-fighters 'gave whose fellow-fighters life combating terrorism for whose fellow-fighters nation' Last night video footage emerged of the Afghanistan veteran in Syria wearing combat gear, jeans and a black T-shirt.
article_snippet: whose fellow-fighters says: 'My name is Konstandinos Erik Scurfield.
article_snippet: Konstandinos Erik Scurfield was stopped from joining Kurdish forces last October when Konstandinos Erik Scurfield was still a serving Royal Marine.
article_snippet: Konstandinos Erik Scurfield had been training with the US Marines in California when Konstandinos Erik Scurfield made email contact with a Kurdish group and arranged to travel to the frontline.
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield, known as Kosta to his comrades, is the first Briton to be killed while fighting IS in Syria.
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield decided to quit the Army to join the Kurdish peshmerga after befriending fighters in the region on Facebook.
article_snippet: Fellow fighters in Mr Scurfield's 'Lions of Rojava' group have posted tributes to Mr Scurfield online today .
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield was described by family friends as 'strong-willed', with a 'deep sense of duty and honour' Mr Scurfield left Mr Scurfield base in November, telling Mr Scurfield parents, both 49, and Mr Scurfield three siblings that Mr Scurfield was going to provide 'medical and humanitarian support' as an expert in battlefield medicine.
article_snippet: Jordan Matson, a former US soldier also fighting with the Kurds, described Mr Scurfield as a 'disciplined warrior'.
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield died while fighting with the Kurdistan People's Protection Units (YPG) in the Al-Hasakah province on Monday .
highlights_snippet: Konstandinos Erik Scurfield was killed fighting Islamic State on Monday .
  