Rose Gentle's son Gordon, 19, was killed by a roadside bomb weeks after completing his training.
Ms Gentle said: "The first thing I says to him was 'What has he done?' because Gordon was a climber. He had probably injured himself or something."I just remember coming out of the car screaming 'It'll not be Gordon. It can't be Gordon. It's not true'."
Just weeks earlier Gordon had completed his training at the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick, North Yorkshire. In the weeks that followed they watched unfolding events in Iraq with concern before Gordon left Scotland for the last time.Residents fleeing the city of Basra during the first month of the conflict"I just told his Dad: 'Gordon is not coming back.'The last contact Ms Gentle had with her son was a call from the conflict zone."It was not as if he had much time to tell us what was happening there. That was last phone call. First and last phone call.
During her campaign for answers from the UK government, Ms Gentle contested the 2005 general election against then armed forces minister Adam Ingram in East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow but lost out.
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