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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Colleagues tell of bravery at Truro Cathedral service for staff sergeant killed in Afghanistan The widow of army bomb disposal expert Olaf "Oz" Schmid today paid tribute to her "warrior" husband as his funeral took place with full military honours in his home city of Truro. Christina Schmid said her husband was a protector rather than a destroyer of life and urged "peacemakers"...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, killed trying to defuse improvised explosive in Afghanistan, to be buried in Truro cathedral The funeral of one of the most high-profile casualties of the conflict in Afghanistan, bomb disposal expert Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid, is taking place in his native Cornwall today. Schmid, 30, was killed last month as he neared the end of a tour in which he made...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Yesterday was the 100th time that the small Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett has fallen silent as the bodies of servicemen killed in Afghanistan passed along the High Street.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
An cortege conveying the bodies of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan is the 100th repatriation procession through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Only a handful of mourners watched the first coffins pass through the Wiltshire town. Now hundreds are turning out The scene has become all too familiar but no less emotional. Just before 11am today a C17 Globemaster will fly low over the town of Wootton Bassett. It will touch down at nearby RAF Lyneham and the coffins of two soldiers will be carefully carried off by their colleagues. After being...
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A sad milestone is being marked in the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
As another group of British casualties returns from Afghanistan, Gordon Brown plans steps to calm relatives of frontline troops in a week when one organiser bans politicians from the latest Wootton Bassett tribute Number 99 arrives tomorrow. The 100th repatriation procession to pass through Wootton Bassett may follow within the week. As the cortege containing the bodies of the latest British soldiers...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The sombre procession of six coffins, draped in Union flags, along the streets of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire on Tuesday was yet another reminder of the human cost of the war in Afghanistan. Each contained the body of a British soldier killed there the previous week.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid died in Afghanistan last month. His wife talks of her loss and shares his harrowing letters home She had never had the nightmare before. Her husband, Olaf "Oz" Schmid, one of the army's most respected bomb disposal experts, appeared in her dream clearly in serious trouble. "He was saying: 'I need some help, help me.' It was weird." Next morning Christina...
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Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
After several days of attacks on Gordon Brown over his handwritten letter to Jacqui Janes, the whole story appears to be backfiring on The Sun. Roy Greenslade is reporting on a backlash from the public and from other newspapers - including those very hostile to Labour. Here's what The Sun wrote two days ago : Blundering Mr Brown left war hero Jamie Janes's grieving mother in tears by sending her an...
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