The Maine Army National Guard released new details Thursday in the death of Sgt. Richard Parker of Phillips, saying the 26-year-old died when two roadside bombs detonated as his convoy passed.

At the time of the June 13 attack in southern Iraq, Parker was a gunner aboard an armored version of the Humvee, known as the M-1114, said Capt. Shanon Cotta of the Maine Guard.

“We’ll know more as an investigation goes on,” Cotta said.

Parker’s unit, an ad hoc group of Maine Guard members known as Security Force II, has been working on securing the north-south supply route from Kuwait into Iraq.

Parker was traveling northbound from Camp Buehring on the Iraq-Kuwait border to the southern Iraq city of Scania at the time of the attack, Cotta said.

He did not know whether anyone else was hurt in the explosion.

Parker’s wake and funeral – scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at Mt. Abram High School in Salem Township – are expected to be community observances. The soldier graduated from the high school in 1999.

Among his surviving family are his parents, Scott Hood of Strong and Dixie Flagg of Avon. Parker also had an infant son, Keagan, whom he’d never met.

Parker was athletic, loved the outdoors and had a good sense of humor, said Jonathan Parker, a cousin.

Parker had served in Iraq before with the Maine Guard’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 152nd Field Artillery Regiment, which has its headquarters in Waterville.

Maj. Gen. John W. Libby, Maine’s adjutant general, is scheduled to attend the funeral. A scheduling conflict will prevent Gov. John Baldacci from attending, a spokeswoman for the governor said.

Flags across Maine will be flown at half-staff Tuesday.