A teenaged soldier killed in Afghanistan in a believed "friendly fire" incident has taken in Greater Manchester.Kingsman Sean Dawson, 19, from 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's company, was killed in Musa Qala, Helmand province, on 14th February. The Ministry of Defence has started an inquiry into his death.
The interment, with full military honours, was held at St Paul's Church, in his home town of Stalybridge. Veteran soldiers, servicemen mixed with hundreds of mourners who lined the route, packing the church & spilling outer to watch the service relayed on a screen.
The soldier's father was defeat with grief as Kingsman Dawson's colleagues bore his coffin, covered in the Union flag & with his white belt, into the church.
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