Oliver Hall, 24, is from Portsmouth and had joined Kurdish forces in the war-torn area.
Sources say that he died in Raqqa on November 25 while clearing mines and is the seventh British man to have died in Syria while fighting with the Kurdish-led YPG.
Keving Benton who met Oliver in Syria said: ‘We was so willing to learn, always asking questions and taking everything in. He wanted to stop Isis.’
He is not said to have had any military training but was described as being ‘excited to be there’.
According to the BBC he joined a newly-formed group of British and US international volunteers after going to a training academy.
He arrived in Syria from Iraq after leaving the UK in August this year.
Mr Benton added: ‘I spoke to him last week just to see how he was doing, he seemed happy. He was not a soldier but he acted professionally.
‘He wanted to be at the front, and wanted to be right where the action was, and he wasn’t scared to go. He will be sadly missed.’
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