Bodies Of 8 British Soldiers Return Home

The bodies of eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan in a single 24-hour period have been flown back home to Britain People line the streets as their coffins are driven through Wootton Bassett, near RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire. Five of those who died in Helmand on Friday were members of the County Down-based 2nd Battalion The Rifles. Corporal Jonathan Horne and Riflemen William Aldridge, James Backhouse and Joseph Murphy were rescuing comrades from an explosion when they were killed in a second blast. At the time, Rifleman Murphy was carrying Rifleman Daniel Simpson who had been injured by the first bomb. Also returning on Tuesday will be the body of Cpl Lee Scott, of 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, who died in a separate explosion on the same day. Making up the eight are two men killed on Thursday: Private John Brackpool, of Prince of Wales' Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, and Rifleman Daniel Hume, of 4th Battalion The Rifles. The people of Wootton Bassett have turned out repeatedly to pay tribute to the UK's fallen

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