Friday, 25 June 2010

Funeral of Captain Jonathan Allen


The burial of the ashes of Captain Jonathan Allen of the Royal Fusiliers took place on Thursday 24 June.

Captain Allen had survived two tours of duty in Afghanistan. He was killed after crashing his bicycle as he swerved to avoid a huge pothole on the A338 in Wiltshire. He suffered severe injuries after colliding with a lorry as he tried to avoid the pothole in heavy rain. It is believed Captain Allen did not see the water-filled hole until the last minute, and then swerved into the path of a lorry which was passing him.

You can read newspaper coverage of his death from The Times and the Daily Telegraph