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Martin Lowe ITV Central Tonight 17 Nov 10
On the very day Britain remembers its war dead, the family of a Walsall soldier who was killed in Iraq were threatened with having part of his grave taken down by Walsall Council.
The mother of Gunner David Lawrence says it’s insensitive and completely lacking in compassion…
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B'ham Post 11 Nov 10
Walsall Mayor & staff observe 2 minutes’ silence
Millions of Britons fell silent today to remember those who have died in war.
But in London the solemn moment was marred by a small group of protesters styling themselves Muslims Against Crusades, who burned a model of a poppy.
As the clock struck 11am, the nation paused to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, when peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War…
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B'ham Mail 6 Oct 10
An Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran is facing jail after pocketing almost £2,500 meant for an Armed Forces charity.
Debt-ridden soldier Ashley White from Tasker Street, Walsall, who spent nine years with the Royal Signal Corps, raised the cash at a Midland pub in aid of Help for Heroes…
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Express & Star 17 Jul 10
Just over a year after his death, more than 300 people turned out to an emotional fundraiser in memory of a Walsall soldier.
Corporal Jonathan Horne, known as Jay, was killed in an explosion while serving in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on July 10 last year, aged 27. Since then his mother Jane Whitehouse, 54, of Delves, Walsall, has been tirelessly raising money for a charity set up with other bereaved mothers called Afghan Heroes…
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Express & Star 5 Jun 10
A service for soldiers killed in action in the last year including a hero from Walsall was held at the National Memorial Arboretum on Saturday.
Among those being paid tribute to was Walsall Corporal Jonathan Horne who died after an explosion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on July 10…
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Chris Henwood B'ham Mail 21 May 10
A soldier has denied acting as a bogus collector for the armed forces charity Help for Heroes. Ashley White, of Tasker Street, Walsall, was remanded on bail until October 4 by Judge Martin Walsh at Wolverhampton Crown Court…
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Express & Star 19 May 10
A former Irish guard who took part in Trooping the Colour and guarded Buckingham Palace has died aged 74. Tributes were today paid to “gentle giant” George Kisby, of Wednesfield in Wolverhampton.
Originally from Northern Ireland, Mr Kisby also served in Korea, where he was injured while guarding an ammunitions dump. He later worked at Weldless Steel Tube Company in Neachells Lane, Wednesfield…
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Steve Bradley B'ham Mail 14 May 10
A Great Barr soldier who was killed in a road crash in Germany was a passenger in a car that was being driven too fast, an inquest heard.
Lance Corporal Matt Milbourne died when a car being driven by a fellow soldier, Michael Phillips, from Edinburgh, skidded on a bend and careered into a lorry.
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TheYamYam 16 Apr 10
A serving Walsall soldier is to appear at crown court accused of carrying out bogus collections for charity Help for Heroes.
Ashley White, aged 24, of Tasker Street, Walsall, with the Royal Signals Corps 222 Regiment, was at Walsall Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
White denied the fraud charge. District judge Michael Morris committed him to Wolverhampton Crown Court on May 12.
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Telegraph 19 Mar 10
The aftermath of a Taliban bomb trap that killed five British soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan including Corporal Jonathan Horne from the Delves, was ”like something from a movie”, an inquest heard today…