Black Watch men come home to tears; PLEA FOR STRENGTH AS HEROES' COFFINS ARRIVE.HUNDREDS of people paid their respects yesterday as the bodies of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan were returned to British soil. Sergeant Stuart Millar, 40, from Inverness, right, and Private Kevin Elliott, 24, from Dundee - both of The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland The Royal Regiment of Scotland is the senior and only Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry. It consists of five regular and two territorial battalions, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the first battalion, which is an amalgamation - died in a blast in Lashkar Gah District, southern Helmand on Monday. After a private chapel ceremony for their families at RAF Lyneham RAF Lyneham (IATA: LYE, ICAO: EGDL) is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It is the home of all the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The station is also home to No.38 Expeditionary Air Wing. , hearses carrying their Union Flag-draped coffins were driven to the high street of nearby Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire, for a memorial procession. |
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