Alexandre FernandezBorn in Cezar, Portugal, Alexandre was a veteran of the Portuguese army and had fought as a mercenary in Angola during the 1980メs where he had been wounded in the buttock. He was an early member of the International Platoon (later company) led by the former Spanish journalist Eduardo Rosa Flores in the eastern Slavonian city of Osijek, Croatia. In late 1991 he was shot in the temple, losing his right eye but miraculously survived and recovered enough to return to active service where he became instantly recognisable from his scars and the black eye patch that he wore. He was nearly twenty-nine when he joined 106 Brigade HVO as an International Volunteer on the 20th September 1992. He was killed just sixteen days later on the 6th October. Alexandre was one of a small unit on a patrol of the front line near the Serb-held Posavina corridor. They had just crossed a road when the lead man came across an anti-tank mine and passed word back to the next of its presence. This warning was repeated down through the patrol but for some reason failed to reach the Portuguese. He did not see the mine and walked right into its upright モantennaヤ bending it over with his body to a sufficiently acute angle to detonate it, killing himself instantly