United in mourning

Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay their respects as the bodies of four soldiers killed in three separate blasts in Afghanistan were brought back to the UK. Lieutenant David Boyce, 25, Lance Corporals Richard Scanlon, 31, both of the 1st The Queen’s Dragoons Guards, Peter Eustace, 25, of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, and Private Thomas Lake, 29, of the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment (1 PWRR), were all killed by explosions in Helmand Province earlier this month and their bodies flown to Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, yesterday.

The cortege went through the village of Carterton and onwards to the John Radcliffe Hospital.

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