Bringing home the fallen

11 Feb 2013 02:30 PM

Ian Carr reports on the MOD's Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre, whose role it is to bring home fallen British Service personnel.

Footsteps on the path. There’s a knock at the door. A family’s world is about to collapse.

Receiving a call from a notifying officer to say that a family member has been killed while serving in the Armed Forces must be every Service family’s worst nightmare. But even while the dreadful news sinks in, a dedicated team of people, who the family will never meet, are moving heaven and earth to provide the support they will need at this terrible time. It’s a silent relationship that might endure for years.

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