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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to instruct the Ministry of Defence and Chief Constables to provide official escorts for the bodies of repatriated British servicemmen. More details
Submitted by Simon Lord – Deadline to sign up by: 23 October 2008 – Signatures: 3,046
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The bodies of British servicemen and women killed overseas are flown to RAF Lyneham.
The hearses carrying the bodies receive no special escort once they leave the county of Wiltshire, normally bound for the mortuary at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
It is an insult to these brave people and their families that their hearses should travel un-escorted on their journey through the country that these men and women served and died for.
The signatories to this petition request that the Ministry of Defence, in co-ordination with local Chief Constables, arrange for a formal escort for the bodies of all those Servicemen and women, unless the next-of-kin request otherwise.
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- Richard Gribble
- Nicola Richards
- Linda Short
- Barbara Ellenbroek
- Cathy Gladwin
- Ian Purcell
- ronald churchill
- Lee Forster
- Carol Leonards
- simon hughes
- Ann Cooper
- Elizabeth Lloyd
- Jean Garrett
- Cpl S Dewing
- Greg Panther
- H WALKER
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- Lynn Wilkinson
- DAVID HOLMES
- Brian Cozens
- Mike Bennett
- Vic Cozens
- Dennis Crassweller
- Dennis Winsor
- Colin Lesley
- bernard thomas buckley
- Oliver Cook
- kevin kime
- Amanda Garrett
- David Ireland
- P. Cozens
- donna barber
- Jim Duckworth
- Ian Dance
- P Martin
- Chris OBrien
- Tim Moggeridge
- Phillip Borg
- Matthew Bell
- G Alderton
- Tracey Finn
- johnporter
- James Finn
- Darren Robinson
- Steven A. Dunn
- Thomas Smith
- Sandra Stocker
- Clive James
- richard.evens
- Wendy Allchin
- Jackie O'Halloran
- Bob Johnson
- Ann Loader
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- Carol L. Neal
- Rob d'Arville
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- Claire Dudley
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- John Stockham
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