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12/04/2007
Soldiers' bodies flown back to the UK
The bodies of four British soldiers, including two women, who were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq last week have been flown back to the UK.
The bodies of Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer, 24, Corporal Kris O'Neill, 27, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, 19, and Kingsman Adam James Smith, 19, were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
A private ceremony was held to mark the repatriation of the bodies of the soldiers.
All four were killed when the Warrior armoured vehicle they were travelling in was attacked as they returned from patrol near Basra.
A Kuwati interpreter was also killed in the blast and a fifth soldier was seriously injured.
The blast left a crater in the road that was three feet deep.
Second Lt Dyer, from Yeovil in Somerset trained with Prince WIlliam at Sandhurst military academy. He described her as a "close friend" and said he was "deeply saddened" to hear of her death.
Kingsman Smith, from Liverpool, served alongside 2nd Lt Dyer in 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
Cpl O'Neill, from Catterick, West Yorkshire and Pte Dlugosz, from Southampton, were both in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(KMcA/JM)
The bodies of Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer, 24, Corporal Kris O'Neill, 27, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, 19, and Kingsman Adam James Smith, 19, were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
A private ceremony was held to mark the repatriation of the bodies of the soldiers.
All four were killed when the Warrior armoured vehicle they were travelling in was attacked as they returned from patrol near Basra.
A Kuwati interpreter was also killed in the blast and a fifth soldier was seriously injured.
The blast left a crater in the road that was three feet deep.
Second Lt Dyer, from Yeovil in Somerset trained with Prince WIlliam at Sandhurst military academy. He described her as a "close friend" and said he was "deeply saddened" to hear of her death.
Kingsman Smith, from Liverpool, served alongside 2nd Lt Dyer in 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
Cpl O'Neill, from Catterick, West Yorkshire and Pte Dlugosz, from Southampton, were both in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(KMcA/JM)
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