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Article: An English rose returns; 1.The long road home: Hearses carrying the bodies of the fallen soldiers parade through Wootton Bassett yesterday 2.Corporal Sarah Bryant: Killed in Afghanistan.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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Byline: Colin Fernandez
HER coffin took pride of place at the head of the procession.
It was draped with a Union Flag and adorned with a bouquet of red roses - laidby the husband she married less than two years ago.
This was the poignant return yesterday of Corporal Sarah Bryant, the firstBritish woman soldier to die in Afghanistan.
Another bunch of flowers, placed next to a town war memorial, was accompaniedby a handwritten note saying: 'To a perfect English rose and her comrades. Restin peace.' Hundreds turned out to pay their respects as the procession passedthrough Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, six days since a roadside bomb claimed ...