Tributes to Iraq War's 100th Casualty

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A LONE piper played a Scottish lament yesterday for the 100th member of the British armed forces to die in Iraq, as hundreds of mourners gathered at the soldier's funeral.

Corporal Gordon Pritchard, 31, of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, was killed instantly on 31 January when the Land Rover in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.

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Tributes to Iraq War's 100th Casualty

The soldier, originally from Edinburgh, had been serving in Um Qasr in the province of Basra at the time.

Just weeks before his death, Cpl Pr...

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