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  • Youngest British war victim honoured

    04/28/2003 11:16:52 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 8 replies · 388+ views
    icNewcastle ^ | April 28 2003
    Friends, family and Army colleagues attended the funeral today of the youngest British victim of the war with Iraq. A service for Kelan Turrington, 18, of the First Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was held at All Saints Church, in his home village of Haslingfield, near Cambridge. His coffin was carried to the church by a bearer party of six soldiers from his regiment, followed by the teenager's parents John, known as Curly, Turrington, 54, his mother Ann, 46, and brother Liam, 15. The party walked through two lines of soldiers. Around 250 mourners packed the parish church...