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Article: Military funeral to be held for North casualty
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- April 3, 2003
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THE mother of a soldier killed in the war on Iraq is planning a
military funeral.
Ann Nichol watched television coverage of the bodies of the first
British servicemen killed in the Gulf being flown into RAF Brize
Norton, in Oxfordshire, in tears at the weekend.
Her son, Colour Sergeant John Cecil, 36, was among the first
casualties of the war when he and seven Royal Marine colleagues
perished as their Sea Knight helicopter crashed in Kuwait in the
first days of the war.
Friends spoke of their shock at the death of the popular family
man, who was born and brought up in Sandyford, Newcastle.
His mother said she wanted the Ministry of Defence to honour her
son with a full military funeral.
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