Mourners lined the streets of Wootton Bassett yesterday to pay tribute to a soldier killed in Afghanistan in what could be the town’s final repatriation.
Lieutenant Daniel Clack, 24, of the 1st Battalion The Rifles, was leading a 10-man patrol when he was killed by a Taliban bomb in Helmand on Friday.
Hundreds of locals joined his mother Sue, brother James and fiancée Amy Tinney, who proudly carried her hero’s green Army beret.
His family said: “Dan was a brave Rifleman and he died doing the only profession he ever considered.”
It could be the last repatriation at the Wiltshire town as soldiers are to be flown into RAF Brize Norton instead of RAF Lyneham from August 31.