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National Memorial Arboretum service for 59 killed in 2011 | National Memorial Arboretum service for 59 killed in 2011 |
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Tributes have been paid at a service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to members of the UK Armed Forces who died last year. | |
The annual service of commemoration for the families of those killed was led by Bishop John Kirkham, former Bishop to the Armed Forces. | |
Tributes were paid to the 59 people killed on duty or as a result of terrorism, organisers said. | |
It took place at 10:00 BST with an invite-only congregation of 350 people. | |
The arboretum is home to the Armed Forces Memorial which commemorates those killed from the end of World War II to the conflict in Afghanistan. | |
'Give thanks' | |
Chief executive of the arboretum, Commander Charles Bagot Jewit, said: "It's all about the families and a lot of them look on it as an opportunity to achieve some sort of closure. | |
"With the names on the wall it's an opportunity to come together and give thanks for their lives." | |
He added there were now more than 16,000 names on the memorial wall with the addition of the 59 remembered at the service. | |
Families of those named on the wall will lay wreaths next to it. | |
Ten members of the Royal Navy, 45 from the Army and four from the Royal Air Force have been inscribed on it. |
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