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Families see bodies carried from aircraft at RAF Lyneham as Prince Edward pays respects to dead soldiers
The bodies of eight British soldiers killed during the army’s bloodiest 24 hours in Afghanistan arrived back in the UK today.
The coffins of the men, three of whom were 18, arrived draped in union flags just after noon at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
The families of the men were there to see their bodies carried from the CI7 aircraft. Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, was also at the base in his capacity as royal colonel of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, with which five of the dead men served. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said he “wanted to pay his respects to those soldiers who sadly died”.
A private ceremony at the chapel of rest is being held this afternoon, before eight hearses drive through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett, where crowds are already gathering to pay tribute to the men.
Five soldiers from 2nd Battalion The Rifles died near Sangin, in Helmand province, on Friday, in two “daisy-chain” explosions.
Corporal Jonathan Horne, 28, and Riflemen William Aldridge, 18, James Backhouse, 18, and Joseph Murphy, 18, were rescuing comrades from an earlier blast when a second device detonated.
Murphy was carrying Rifleman Daniel Simpson, 20 – who was injured by the first makeshift bomb – when both were killed in the following explosion.
Aldridge, from Bromyard, Herefordshire, was attempting to reach casualties from the first blast, despite being wounded himself.
Also returning on the C17 plane will be Corporal Lee Scott, 26, of 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, who died in an explosion on the same day just north of Nad-e-Ali during Operation Panther’s Claw.
The two other men were killed in separate incidents on Thursday. Private John Brackpool, 27, of the Prince of Wales’ Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was shot at Char-e-Anjir, near Lashkar Gah, while on sentry duty. Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22, of 4th Battalion The Rifles, was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad-e-Ali.
The hearses will drive to Wootton Bassett on their way to the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford. Inquests into their deaths will be held in the coming weeks.
Crowds have appeared spontaneously in Wootton Bassett to pay their respects since the bodies of British service personnel started being brought back to Lyneham in 2007.
The mayor of Wootton Bassett, Steve Bucknell, said: “Every repatriation is a very sad event, whether it is one person or eight.
“What makes it so much sadder is when you see the friends and family of the fallen and it brings it home that these are real people with real lives – someone’s son, grandson, brother and father. They are going to leave a hole in many lives.”
He paid tribute to the “fantastic” people of Wootton Bassett. “They never fail to amaze me with their ability to always do the right thing,” he said.
Standing beneath a simple homemade tribute with bunting and newspaper clippings, Alison Aldridge, the aunt of Rifleman Aldridge, had brought eight red roses with her in tribute to all the men who fell.
“It is extremely sad that his life was taken so swiftly, but I take comfort from the fact that he had two very fulfilling years rather than a lifetime of regrets,” she said.
“It’s lovely that so many people are here – young and old. It’s amazing how so many young people here understand and respect what’s going on.”
Veteran Alan Pearson, 74, from Frome, Somerset, a former Royal Engineer, was attending a repatriation for the first time to pay his “respects to the lads and their families”.
“I think they should stay there [in Afghanistan] but I think they should give them better equipment – helicopters,” he said. “They are doing the right thing. If not then these devils are going to be over here, blowing us up.”
Yesterday Gordon Brown said the last few weeks of fighting in Helmand had been “a sad and difficult time” for Britain, but said it was right to press on and stop al-Qaida using Afghanistan as a base.
His words came after a total of 15 soldiers died in Afghanistan in 10 days, bringing the total number of UK military fatalities in the country since 2001 to 184, surpassing the 179 who died in Iraq.
