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22/07/2005
Soldiers bodies back home
The bodies of three Staffordshire Regiment soldiers have been flown back to the UK today.
Pte Leon Spicer, 26, Pte Phillip Hewitt, 21 and 2nd Lieutenant Richard Shearer, 26, were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in Al Amarah on 16 July.
Lieutenant Richard Shearer and Pte Leon Spicer were killed instantly, and Pte Phillip Hewitt received first aid but died later at the scene.
(CD/GB)
Pte Leon Spicer, 26, Pte Phillip Hewitt, 21 and 2nd Lieutenant Richard Shearer, 26, were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in Al Amarah on 16 July.
Lieutenant Richard Shearer and Pte Leon Spicer were killed instantly, and Pte Phillip Hewitt received first aid but died later at the scene.
(CD/GB)
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