Only a handful of mourners watched the first coffins pass through the Wiltshire town. Now hundreds are turning out
The scene has become all too familiar but no less emotional. Just before 11am today a C17 Globemaster will fly low over the town of Wootton Bassett. It will touch down at nearby RAF Lyneham and the coffins of two soldiers will be carefully carried off by their colleagues. After being met by families at the base's chapel of rest, the coffins will be driven through Wootton Bassett and on to a hospital in Oxford. As ever, crowds will line the streets of the Wiltshire town and other points along the route to pay their respects.
This will be the 100th repatriation through Lyneham and Bassett, as townspeople call it, and perhaps it will be a time to take stock.
People have been turning out since the bodies of British service personnel were first brought home via the Wiltshire airbase in April 2007. More than 200 bodies have passed this way.
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The scene has become all too familiar but no less emotional. Just before 11am today a C17 Globemaster will fly low over the town of Wootton Bassett. It will touch down at nearby RAF Lyneham and the coffins of two soldiers will be carefully carried off by their colleagues. After being met by families at the base's chapel of rest, the coffins will be driven through Wootton Bassett and on to a hospital in Oxford. As ever, crowds will line the streets of the Wiltshire town and other points along the route to pay their respects.
This will be the 100th repatriation through Lyneham and Bassett, as townspeople call it, and perhaps it will be a time to take stock.
People have been turning out since the bodies of British service personnel were first brought home via the Wiltshire airbase in April 2007. More than 200 bodies have passed this way.
Continues at: Guardian.co.uk
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