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Sat 11 Nov 2009Town hosts its 100th repatriation of Afghan war dead
THE BELLS of St Bartholomew and All Saint’s Church in Wootton Basset tolled at 1.55pm yesterday. Silence descended upon the hundreds gathered on the main street of the Wiltshire town. Old men stood erect and saluted.
Motorcycle outriders led the two hearses carrying the UK’s latest Afghanistan war dead, the coffins draped in the Union Jack. Seconds later, the aching sobs of Nicola Marlton-Thomas, the wife of one of them, pierced the crowd.
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