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Petition update, 28 November 2008

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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.

Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• Kim Daglish
• E Rowley
• stephen hay
• MIA ROWE
• Sarah Williams
• stephen O'Reilly
• R.Newell
• Sue Collis
• Donald A Johnson
• stewart hayhurst
• steve davies
• Katheyn Hills
• Duncan Brodie
• kanchanmala kumar
• Susanne Drake
• Vanessa Rennie
• Nick Walton
• Ian Knight
• Thomas G McCabe
• lyn phillips
• Gary Mackie
• Haydn L Wiltshire
• James C Nicholson
• john mchale
• Joyce Carroll
• robert fullam
• Mr Edward McClure
• Robert Doyle
• Mr D Brettle
• James Jones
• John Mayne
• IAN READ
• Noel Stone
• Andrew N Coulter
• Louise Farley
• Stephen Farmer
• Anthony Richardson
• Steven Boyle
• Ingrid Stowell
• John Alexander Smith
• Steven King
• Peter Campbell
• Kevin J Beech
• Kenneth Owen
• Jimmy Knox
• dave youds
• Arthur Young
• Joseph Quinn
• John Devlin
• Ron Devlin
• Iain McIntyre
• Thomas Roach
• Francis Feeney (ex IG)
• GED BAILEY
• Patricia Bulmer
• J C Cargill-Kipar
• steven drumm
• G.R.Duxbury
• Michael Nicholson
• Edward Whelan
• Michelle Wiltshire
• Frank McCracken (Ex 4 R Irish)
• Daviid Seymour
• Hazel Wray
• Mark Harper
• lee smith
• Mary Redman
• H M G Davies
• Charlie Noble
• Karen McCaffery
• James Rees ( EX IRISH GUARDS)
• Alastair Mclean
• \andrew Kiely
• David F Rees (ex Royal Irish Rangers)
• peter.p.farrell
• Dennis Abbott
• Anna Pryor
• Des Bolger.BEM
• donna shepstone
• Barry White
• jimmy fitzsimons
• Philip Squire
• Craig Phillip Deyes
• Corrin Downes
• hayley betteridge
• Lawrence Hendry
• Kevin Chatfield
• Robert Smyth
• Duncan Mason
• Lorrayn Keyte
• angela finch
• Andrea Gay
• A Rutter
• Barie Gill
• Andrew Robert Cutmore
• Stuart Cutmore
• Sgt Mark Conlin, Irish Guards
• Michael McCready
• Alistair Philip
• Capt James Morgan
• WILLIAM MCGOOKIN
• Gareth Smith
• J J Kenneally
• jonathan milner
• glen dye
• Alan Henshall
• Conor Breslin
• M.D.Yole
• Norman Kerr ex Irish Guards
• Major WE Matthews
• Captain J Roche
• Brian Baxter
• Peter Gresham
• john fawcett
• SAMUEL JOHN SMITH
• Patrick Anthony Geraghty
• Ronald Kirkland
• sharon saunders
• shaun fawcett
• Paul Chapman
• kevin duffy
• david morgan
• Walter Hawthorne
• ashley drury
• Elizabeth Arthurs
• Peter Woolley
• Roy Henderson
• Peter McCarry
• Marty Kane
• Mandy Addington
• Robert Farms
• Richard Knight
• Nigel Carl Bunton ex RAPC/AGC (SPS)
• john finn
• gary wale
• Anthony Dale
• Jeremy Crockett
• LynneO'Keefe
• Paul Randall
• Catherine Randall
• Colin Plain
• Joe Mcdonald
• austyn
• pippa gooding
• Vicky Anayurt
• Steve Mitchell
• gerald Coulson
• James Ian Fisher
• Neil Palmer
• Alan Sainter
• Bridget Palmer
• Jason White
• rachael percival
• stuart Percival
• Richard Fleming
• Laurie INGRAM
• John Annan
• geoffrey gard
• Gerald Lilley
• John Harris
• Phil Drake ( ex Royal Signals )
• david bell
• felicity bell
• I E Alderson
• thomas daft
• Stuart McGarry
• Paula Bateman
• David Gaffney
• John Harley
• Brian Johnston
• ANN STOKES
• Damien Carlton
• John Kemp
• Thomas Jackman
• chris stacey
• david tyler
• Eric T Smith
• Andrew
• Louise Owens
• Gavin Short
• terence griffin
• Paul Graham Kaye
• scott carthy
• Kath Nuttall
• susan hariis
• Brian Kershaw
• Graham Cabble
• steve naylor
• syd ofee
• Peter Benson
• richard blackburn
• Malcolm Cooney
• Nigel Marklew
• Peter Turnbull
• Kieran J. Samways
• Christine Samways
• Darren Wray
• stephen heaton
• Desmond King ex RAF
• philip buckett
• euan hall
• Jeff Walker
• paul cruddace
• Dennis Redfearn
• scott leighton
• william maxwell
• Martin Agar
• steve whalen
• David Hamilton
• Sheena Nicholson
• John Springthorpe
• Janet Ann Bannister
• Linda Farmer
• Phil Ballantyne
• Kevin Puttock
• julia & mick brooker
• Andrew Ridsdale (REME)
• kenneth shuttlewood
• a seaward
• Kirsty McLaren
• Keith Johnson
• robert mills
• Rocky Ramharak
• Jason Kitchker
• Steve Wright
• Craig Fortes petitions.pm.gov.uk/hungry-soldiers/
• E D O'Brien
• Bill Green (Ex RCT)
• M A Jennings
• Adam Page
• Ronald C Bradley
• P Waymark
• Nicola Seymour
• lucy scott
• C Royle
• Kevin Tharby
• Kenneth Biggins
• Tom Bullen
• Darren Ward
• dean woods
• C M Walbran
• derek haycock(spike1)EX ARMY
• Dai Rees RAF Rtd
• Rod Winstanley
• Ted Wincomb
• Dave
• Philip Lovell
• W.J.Gall
• Mr. Alec Harold Tonge
• James Wilberforce
• derick gautrey
• Errol Graham, RAF Rtd.
• Mike Gray ex WO. RN
• Hubert Thompson
• francis hart
• RICHARD MARRIOTT
• barry lincoln
• david francis pinchin
• Tony Reeves
• Nigel Dixon
• Mal Grosse
• James Mitchell
• Terence Rawlins
• Terry Hulmes
• Killian mcDermott
• Stephen Hough
• Michael Stanway
• Andrew Smith
• Graham Glen
• John Beaumont
• Alex Duncan
• Bryan Bennett
• Ian Romanis
• Doug
• Paul Fidler
• Andrew Sellers
• Tina Underwood
• Peter Hudson
• Lloyd Burton
• Roger M Hatchman
• Colin Dean
• Dave Lincoln
• frank jiggins
• Giselle Williams, Pension and Forces Brat
• edie denmark
• Julie sykes
• Brian Woolley
• John Mckee
• Simon Eccles
• B.S. Morton
• Carl Redmond
• Mike Kane
• Gary Young Ex RN
• Capt (Retd) N Francis-McGann
• phil martin
• S Kingston
• david king
• David Hallam
• Ken Ambrose
• Ray Dowsett ex-RN
• LEN MADDEN
• Phil Rigby
• William Newdick
• Ben Oliver
• Philip Astle
• allan connel mcgauley
• Karen Williamson
• patricia cartlidge
• Peter Howell
• C Buzzacott [Buzz] EX 1st queens
• Ivor Cope
• Edward Clarke
• andrew reddy
• Neil Bloyce
• Graham Wilkinson
• William Wilmont
• Anthony Feeney
• MR F WOODBURNE
• Sue Clayfield
• Ron Guy
• david McCullough
• John M Boyer
• David Lockhart
• Michael WIshart
• Alistair Johnston, ex Irish Guards
• William Hatch
• Chick Scanlon
• philip lee
• Tom Roach
• michael surgenor
• Craig Thomson
• Michael Crome
• Graham Ponton
• Dean O'Brien
• Paul Graham Sas
• Stephen Doyle
• John McMullan
• Paula McMullan
• James McGowan Ex Irish Guards
• brian blanchfield
• Roderick R L Jarvis
• Michael Mather
• Patrick Stanton MC. MA. FICD
• Elizabeth Evans
• darren whiteley
• Patrick Lally
• a macdonald
• William Alan Harvey
• Thomas Bishop
• Ron Scott
• narendra gulhati
• peter starrs
• GreenDiane
• Keely Hetherington
• Averil Johnston
• Amy Johnston
• John Tudor
• Shirley Hubbock
• Warren Ellison
• Thomas O'Leary
• Paul Sealey
• Kevin Thomas Wilson
• Louisa Madden
• Danielle Leach
• Paul Greep
• Gillian Millman
• s wilkinson
• Martin George Maclennan
• Tim Hopkinson
• Jim Nicholson
• Kirstie Nicholson Spark
• allen william andrews (NASHER)
• Kathleen Hemsley
• Warren Moore
• Louise Hollingsworth
• Michael Duro
• Serena Duro
• Jeannie Armstrong
• Adi Waters
• Andrew J Boulton
• John Irvine
• Ash Houghton
• D BROOKS
• Thomas Jenkin
• William Morris
• Peter Rolston
• Paul Carlin
• Kate Milligan
• Robert Telford
• sarah-jane chubb
• Martin Johnson
• chris Armstrong
• ALAN TADD
• Gavin Hardy
• David White
• Geoff Brown
• darren brooke
• Keith Cooper
• Andrew Sissons
• robert bruce
• owen smith
• Markintime
• Ben Hayday
• Mark Tingay
• MICHAEL PARKER
• john reavill
• Darran Clarkson
• Paul Wagstaff
• Margaret Harding
• danny white
• Dave Roberts
• Matthew Wright
• conrad wells (ex RGJ)
• jamie robinson
• Mark Skirrow
• Win Hough
• Stephen Harrison
• Nigel Allatt
• Fiona Russell
• Conn Nicholson
• Dean Littler
• Jay Brittain
• Natalie Davies
• Marcus Skeet Ex 1IG
• Kelly Campbell
• Duncan Campbell
• J Nicholson
• GDSM Lee Wheeler QGM
• Ian Garman
• matthew roberts
• Cecil McCready
• Connor Nolan
• Mark Fisher
• Stephen Hay, Ex Army
• Stephanie rance
• Sabrina Purtell
• Claire Bennett
• Ross Mulder
• sharon littler
• stephen mchale
• Phillip Edmondson
• Cathy O'Connor
• graham dickens
• patrick gallagher
• Clare
• Martin Miller
• warren edge
• DAVID MOLLOY exmicks
• brian littler
• Paul James Whillis
• marcia irons
• Jason Crabb
• michael bnishop
• Michaela Feeney
• Gareth Waddell
• George Eric Roberts
• Catherine Todd
• Rosalind
• Thomas Mark Johnston
• john cheape
• Tony Duffy
• nicola scales
• David Garvan
• Ben Walker
• gemma bell
• Sophia Ellul
• nicholas haley
• Nicola Ramsay
• Paul Philips
• Layla Williams
• David E Mapp
• David Hasdell
• Stuart Rickard
• Hollie Goodrum
• Sarah Moore
• Ben Wilson
• Daniel Cichocki
• chris wootton
• Neil Thomson
• Richard O'Connell
• philip lee
• paul jays
• Alexander Huston
• James Plenty
• michael mccullough
• Bill Mc Lernon
• John Hyland
• stephen alan jones
• Ritchie Moore
• Dan Wilkinson
• Damen Barks
• Tom Schulz
• JOHN R. C. HUCKLE
• David Austin
• V Collins
• Jason Silvey
• Nathan West
• Ian Grealey
• Amy Neale
• ALAN W HOWARD EX MICK

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