Repatriations

Sadly, our town of Wootton Bassett is too often in the news for the wrong reason.

Soldiers killed in Afghanistan are repatriated to nearby RAF Lyneham and their bodies pass through our Town on the way to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.  

Many people from our Town line the High Street to honour those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. They are joined by many from further afield and members of the families of those who have lost their lives.

Our Church Administrator is notified by the Town Council of the dates of all repatriations and he in turn passes on the details to members of the church so they may join those who honour our war-dead.

Our monthly prayer diary details the names of those who have died so that our church members can pray for the families of those who have fallen and for those who are still serving in Afghanistan. We also pray for the many wounded servicemen receiving treatment and those who care for them. We pray for the Christian Padres who serve alongside the members of the Armed Forces and MOD civilians and their work and Christian witness.  We also continue to pray for peace to come to this troubled nation and the nation of Iraq.

We invite those who are reading this web-page to join with us in prayer and intercession. Below are the names and other details of those who have died during the period August, 2009, to the present day.

They were repatriated on 7, 13, 18, 21 and 27 August; 4, 10, 17, 24 and 29 September; 1, 9, 15 and 29 October; 5, 10, 16, 20 and 24 November; 8, 15, 22 and 29 December, 2009; 5, 11, 19 and 29 January; 5, 12 & 25 February; 4, 11, 23 & 30 March; 9 & 15 April; 7, 13 & 26 May; 3, 10, 17, 24 & 29 June; 6, 8, 15, 20, 22 & 29 July 2010; 5, 19 & 27 August.

The last repatriation was on Friday 27 August.

• Private Kyle Adams, The Parachute Regiment, aged 21.
• Rifleman Peter Aldridge, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 19.
• Rifleman Philip Allen, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 20, from Dorset.
• Rifleman Jonathon Allott, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from North Shields.
• Acting Sergeant John Amer, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, from Sunderland.  
• Fusilier Simon Annis, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 22, from Salford.
• Rifleman Carlo Apolis, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 28, from South Africa. 
• Lance Corporal Jordan Bancroft, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 25, from Burnley.
• Rifleman Samuel Bassett, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 20, from Plymouth.
• Marine Steven Birdsall, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 20, from Warrington (died in hospital in UK, from wounds sustained in Afghanistan). 
• Acting Corporal Steven Boote, Royal Military Police, aged 22, from Birkenhead.
• Major James Bowman, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 34, from Salisbury.
• Lance Corporal Richard Brandon, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 24, from Kidderminster.
• Lance Corporal Andrew Breeze, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), aged 31, from Manchester.
• Marine Adam Brown, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 26, from Burtle, near Glastonbury.
• Rifleman James Brown, 3 Rifles Reconnaissance Platoon, aged 18, from Farnborough.
• Lance Corporal Tommy Brown, The Parachute Regiment.
• Corporal Lee Brownson, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 30, from Bishop Auckland.
• Fusilier Jonathan Burgess, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 20, from Swansea.
• Fusilier Shaun Bush, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 24, from Warwickshire.
• Lance Corporal Barry Buxton, 21 Engineer Regiment, aged 27, from Meir, Stoke-on-Trent.
• Sergeant Steven Campbell. 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 30, from Durham.
• Fusilier Louis Carter, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 18, from Nuneaton.
• Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, aged 32, from Nailsworth, Glos.
• Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 40, from Walthamstow.
• Lance Corporal Alan Cochran, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), aged 23, from St. Asaph, N. Wales.
• Lance Corporal Daniel Cooper, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 22, from Hereford.
• Marine Jonathan Crookes, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 26, from Birmingham.
• Corporal Stephen Curley, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 26, from Dewsbury, W. Yorkshire.
• Gunner Zak Cusack, 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 20, from Stoke-on-Trent.
• Lt. Douglas Dalzell, 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards, from Berkshire.
• Sergeant Steven Darbyshire, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 35, from Wigan.
• Kingsman Sean Dawson, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 19, from Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester.
• Lance Corporal Adam Drane, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 23, from Bury St Edmunds.
• Captain Martin Driver, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 31, from Barnsley - died in Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, from wounds sustained on 21 February, 2010.
• Kingsman Jason Dunn-Bridgeman, 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 20, from Liverpool.
• Private Gavin Elliott, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 19, from Worksop. 
• Private Kevin Elliott, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 24, from Dundee.
• Rifleman Luke Farmer, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from Pontefract.
• Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 7th Battalion The Rifles, aged 23, from Cambridge.
• Sapper Darren Foster, 21 Engineer Regiment, aged 20, from Carlisle.
• Sergeant Paul Fox, 28 Engineer Regiment, aged 34, from St. Ives.
• Lance Corporal James Fullarton, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 24, from Coventry.
• Bombardier Stephen Gilbert, 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 36, from Topcliffe, N. Yorkshire (died in hospital in Birmingham from wounds sustained in Afghanistan).
• Corporal Richard Green, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 23, from Reading.
• Lance Sergeant Dave Greenhalgh, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 25, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
• Senior Aircraftsman Kinikki Griffiths, aged 20.
• Private James Grigg, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 20, from Hartismere, Suffolk.
• Sapper Ishwor Gurung, 69 Gurkha Field Squadron, 21 Engineer Regiment, aged 21, from Pokhara, Nepal.
• Captain Mark Hale, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 42, from Bournemouth.
• Trooper Brett Hall, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 21, from Dartmouth.
• Private Douglas Halliday, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 20, from Wallasey, Merseyside.
• Lance Corporal Scott Hardy, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 26, from Chelmsford.
• Corporal Christopher Harrison, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 26, from Watford.
• Corporal John Harrison, The Parachute Regiment.
• Marine Matthew Harrison, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23, from Hemel Hempstead.
• Marine David Hart, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23, from Upper Poppleton, N. Yorkshire.
• Lance Bombardier Matthew Hatton, 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners), aged 23, from Easingwold, N. Yorks.
• Private Robert Hayes, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 19, from Cambridge.
• Lance Corporal Darren Hicks, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged 29, from Mousehole, Cornwall.
• Lance Corporal James Hill, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged 23, from Redhill, Surrey.
• Rifleman Daniel Holkham, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from Chatham, Kent.
• Marine Richard Hollington, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23, from Petersfield (died in hospital in UK, from wounds sustained in Afghanistan).
• Corporal Harvey Holmes, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 22, from Hyde, Greater Manchester.
• Lance Corporal Dale Hopkins, The Parachute Regiment, aged 23.  
• Corporal Simon Hornby, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 29, from Liverpool.
• Colour Sergeant Martyn Horton, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 34, from Runcorn.
• Marine Anthony Hotine, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 21, from Warminster.
• Rifleman Aidan Howell, 3rd Battalion The Rifles.
• Private Richard Hunt, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 21, from Abervagenny.
• Private Alex Isaac, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 20, from the Wirral.
• Guardsman Jamie Janes, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 20, from Brighton. 
• Lance Corporal Tom Keogh, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 24, from Paddington, London.
• Rifleman Martin Kinggett, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from Dagenham.
• Lance Corporal David Kirkness, 3 Rifles Reconnaissance Platoon, aged 24, from Wakefield.   
• Corporal Jamie Kirkpatrick, 101 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), aged 32, from Llanelli. 
• Rifleman Remand Kulung, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), aged 27, from Nepal (died in hospital in Birminghan from wounds sustained in Afghanistan).
• Trooper James Leverett, The Royal Dragoon Guards, aged 20, from Sheffield.
• Staff Sergeant Brett Linley, The Royal Logistics Corps, aged 29, from Birmingham.
• Acting Sergeant Michael Lockett MC, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, from Monifieth, Angus.  
• Craftsman Anthony Lombardi, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, attached to The Light Dragoons, aged 21, from Scunthorpe. 
• Sergeant Robert Loughran-Dickson, 4th Regiment, Royal Military Police, aged 33, from Deal, Kent.
• Guardsman James Major, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 18, from Grimsby.
• Warrant Officer Class 2 David Markland, 36 Engineer Regiment, aged 36, from Euxton, Lancashire.
• Corporal Loren Marlton-Thomas, 33 Engineer Regiment, aged 28.
• Rifleman Mark Marshall, 6th Battalion The Rifles, aged 29, from Exeter.
• Corporal Thomas 'Tam' Mason, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 27, from Rosyth. Died in Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, on 25 October, 2009.
• Rifleman Liam Maughan, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18, from Doncaster.
• Sergeant Paul McAleese, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 29, from Hereford.
• Lance Sergeant Dale McCallum, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, aged 31, from Hanover, Jamaica.
• Private Sean McDonald, The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 26, from Edinburgh.
• Acting Sergeant Stuart McGrath, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 28, from Buckinghamshire.
• Sapper Guy Mellors, 36 Engineer Regiment, aged 20, from Coventry.  
• Sergeant Stuart 'Gus' Millar, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 40, from Inverness.
• Private Jonathan Monk, 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, aged 25, from London.
• Sergeant David Monkhouse, The Royal Dragoon Guards, aged 35, from Aspatria, Cumbria.
• Lance Corporal Stephen Monkhouse, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, aged 28, from Greenock.
• Corporal John Moore, The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 22, from Lanarkshire. 
• Corporal Kevin Mulligan, The Parachute Regiment, aged 26.
• Corporal James Oakland, Royal Military Police, aged 26, from Manchester.
• Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, 4th Regiment, Royal Military Police, aged 22, from Maidstone.
• Private James Prosser, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 21, from Cwmbran, S. Wales.
• Corporal Arjun Purja Pun, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 33, from Khibang village, Nepal.
• Lance Corporal David Ramsden, 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 26, from Leeds.
• Captain Daniel Read, 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps, aged 31, from Rainham, Kent.
• Corporal Liam Riley, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 21, from Sheffield.
• Bombardier Samuel Robinson, 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 31, from Carmarthen.
• Corporal Taniela Rogoiruwai, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 32, from Nausori, Fiji.
• Lance Corporal Christopher Roney, A Company, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 23, from Sunderland.
• Sapper Daryn Roy, 21 Engineer Regiment, aged 28, from Consett, Co. Durham.
• Lieutenant John Sanderson, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), aged 29, from Oklahoma, USA (died in hospital in Birmingham from wounds sustained in Afghanistan).
• Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 30, from Truro.   
• Sergeant Phillip Scott, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 30, from Malton.
• Private Thomas Sephton, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 20, from Warrington (died in hospital in Birmingham from wounds sustained in Afghanistan).
• Lance Corporal Graham Shaw, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 27, from Huddersfield.
• Trooper Ashley Smith, The Royal Dragoon Guards, aged 21, from York.
• Sapper Mark Smith, 36 Engineer Regiment, aged 26, from Swanley, Kent.  
• Senior Aircraftsman Luke Southgate, 2 Squadron RAF Regiment, aged 20, from Bury St. Edmunds.
• Corporal Matthew Stenton, The Royal Dragoon Guards, aged 23, from Wakefield.
• Guardsman Michael Sweeney, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged 19, from Blyth in Northumberland.
• Kingsman Ponipate Tagitaginimoce, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 29, from Nausori, Fiji.
• Lance Corporal Michael Taylor, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 30, from Rhyl.
• Marine Scott Taylor, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 20, from Buxton.  
• Sergeant Matthew Telford, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 37, from Grimsby.
• Corporal Stephen Thompson, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 31, from Bovey Tracey, Devon.
• Lieutenant Neal Turkington, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 26, from Craigavon.
• Rifleman Mark Turner, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 21, from Gateshead.
• Sergeant Simon Valentine, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 29, from Bedworth.
• Lance Sergeant David 'Davey' Walker, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, aged 36, from Glasgow.
• Corporal Stephen Walker, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 42, from Lisburn, N. Ireland.
• Marine Paul Warren, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23, from Leyland, Lancashire.
• Sapper David Watson, 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), aged 23.
• Corporal Terry Webster, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), aged 24, from Chester.
• Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, Royal Military Police, aged 24, from Glangwilli.
• Rifleman Daniel Wild, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from Hartlepool.
• Private Jason Williams, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 23, from Worcester.
• Acting Corporal Marcin Wojtak, 34 Squadron RAF Regiment, aged 24, from Leicester.
• Lance Corporal of Horse Jonathan Woodgate, Household Cavalry Regiment, aged 26, from Lavenham, Suffolk.
• Private Johnathon Young, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington's), aged 18, from Hull.
• A Royal Marine.
• A Royal Marine killed in Afghanistan on 1 July, 2010.

Above material Crown Copyright/MOD 2009/2010. Source - MOD web-site.

This link will take you to the MOD web-site where you can view full details of fatalities and casualties in Afghanistan.