Topic: Raf Brize Norton

First body to be returned to Brize Norton

AFP European Edition - 161 days ago
A Royal Marine who died in Afghanistan will be repatriated to RAF Brize Norton on Thursday in the first such ceremony at the Oxfordshire airbase since it took back the role from RAF Lyneham.Sergeant Barry Weston, 40, of 42 Commando, was ...

Wootton Bassett repatriations come to an end

AFP European Edition - 169 days ago
An event tonight will mark the end of solemn repatriations through Wootton Bassett of bodies of people killed in military action.The ceremony will see the lowering at sunset of the Union Flag, which has flown at half mast for the return ...

Stories of loss and love from families of army's fallen

guardian.co.uk - 1200 days ago
'I think about the families, and a life torn apart'The locals line up pints of bitter at the Kings Head bar in Droylsden, Greater Manchester. Before going out to Afghanistan, Tony wrote his family a letter to be opened in the ...