Wales:Truck carries coffin of soldier to final rest

Truck carries coffin of soldier
Cpl Dean John's coffin was escorted to the crematorium by his army colleagues
A soldier from south Wales with a life-long love of engines and trucks was driven to his funeral service on the back of a brand new lorry.

Cpl Dean John, 25, of Port Talbot, was killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand province in Afghanistan on 15 March.

Hundreds of people lined both sides of the streets as the married father of three was driven to Margam Crematorium.

Fellow soldier Cpl Graeme Stiff, 24, from Grimsby, lost his life in the same blast.

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Truck carries coffin of soldier