A CHARITY set up in memory of a soldier who died serving in Afghanistan has donated equipment to help injured servicemen.

Rochford soldier Lt Aaron Lewis, 26, was fatallywounded in 2008 when the gun position he was commanding while serving with the 29 Commando Regiment of the Royal Artillery came under attack.

Mum Helen set up the Aaron Lewis Foundation in his memory and the charity has recently furnished the Regional Rehabilitation Unit in Tidworth, Wiltshire, with an instructors’ sound system.

The system was installed by PVS Solutions, which provided a similar system paid for by the Foundation at Colchester Regional Rehabilitation Unit last year.

The unit runs three-week specialist courses for injured soldiers, including a number of group activities in various parts of the gymnasium.

The sound system provides headset microphones for instructors and allows music to be played in separate parts of the gymnasium.

Helen said: “Gym work was very much close to Aaron’s heart because before he went to Afghanistan he was a personal trainer in Clements Hall leisure centre.

“We’re always trying to do the work he would like to have been able to do if he had been here.”

In March, a street in the Clements Gate development in Hawkwell was named Aaron Lewis Close, after the Echo suggested the idea to contract developer David Wilson Homes.