Funeral of British Army Sergeant Gareth Thursby

THOUSANDS thronged the funeral route of a fallen British soldier - shot dead in Afghanistan - who was known simply to his comrades as ‘Dad’. 

And in tribute to Sergeant Gareth Thursby,  around 120 of his fellow soldiers jetted in to march in his honour. 

His wife Louise, at his full military funeral in Skipton, said that, after his family, ‘his job and his lads were his life’. 

Read the full article at the Lancashire Telegraph