Each of the recipients were on what the army calls a Versatile Engagement Long Career (VEng LC) and included at least one soldier from the Royal Tank Regiment who was on the front line in Afghanistan at the time.
The email was reported to have said: "In my capacity as the Career Manager for the Versatile Engagement Long Career (VEng LC) and Long Service List (LSL), I write to notify you that with regret, I must issue you with 12 months' Notice of Termination.
But the film still leaves Cambodia-watchers pondering the fate of Pol Pot and the remnants of his once formidable guerrilla army.As with every other detail of the Khmers Rouges' contact with the outside world, Mr Thayer's journey with a cameraman from the Thai border to Anlong Veng was not a matter of chance.
Nor does a show trial of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng satisfy international notions of justice.
But, in the process, they have posed a whole new set of questions.Video film of the 69-year-old monster was brought back from the Khmers Rouges' remote northern base of Anlong Veng by Nate Thayer, an American journalist.
In another step towards peace, Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Anlong Veng, in north-west Cambodia, defected to the government side.See article: Cambodia's ousted leader returnsAs Malaysia hastened to deport thousands of illegal immigrants, a lorry containing 14 Indonesians crashed through the gates of a United Nations office in Kuala Lumpur.
Pol Pot is still the boss in Anlong Veng, he says.
The sickly 69-year-old leader and his even sicklier comrade Nuon Chea were brought back to Anlong Veng on stretchers.
General Bunchhay suggests that Khieu Samphan, a "moderate", is in charge of Anlong Veng, but for all his public prominence Mr Samphan has never directly controlled any Khmer Rouge troops.
The murder of his former security chief Son Sen near Anlong Veng, reported earlier this month, points to a ferocious conflict in the group.
