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Article: Double farewell in return from Iraq.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2008
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THREE soldiers have returned home from a six-month tour of Iraq - after an emotional farewell to their comrades when their Royal Military Police unit disbanded after 60 years.
In a moving final parade in Osnabrueck, Germany, 115 Provost Company Military Police members Sergeant Grech Allen of Sheff-ield, Corporal Christo-pher Littlewood of Dinnington and Lance Corporal Daniel Sellers of Killamarsh all rec-eived their Iraq service medals.
Sgt Allen, aged 34, who has also served in Kenya and Bosnia, worked in the investigations section of the Royal Mili-tary Police.
He said: "It was a fascinating experience serving in Iraq but I am ecstatic about ...