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HUNDREDS of mourners gathered yesterday to pay their last respects to teenage Army medic Eleanor Dlugosz, who died in a bomb attack in Iraq. A horse-drawn carriage carried the Union Flag- draped coffin of 19-year-old Private Dlugosz to the medieval parish church of St Peter in Bishops Waltham, a small country town in Hampshire. Pte Dlugoszs mother Sally Veck and her younger brother Andrew, 16, were at the head of the mourners. Mrs Veck said before the funeral that her daughter had made everyone proud. Pte Dlugosz was described in the service as her mothers action girl with a passion for life, who had wanted to serve in the front line as a combat medic, despite the dangers.
Pte Dlugosz was in a Warrior armoured vehicle returning from a patrol in Basra when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb on April 5, killing her, three other British service personnel and a Kuwaiti interpreter.See the full content of this document
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Hundreds Gather for the Funeral of Army Medic, 19
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