Service to include full military honours for Telford airman Brent McCarthy
The funeral of a Telford airman killed by two people wearing Afghan police uniforms in Helmand will take place in Codsall tomorrow.
Corporal Brent John McCarthy, 25, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed along with colleague Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, whilst deployed as part of a Police Advisory Team to attend a meeting at the local Afghan Uniform Police headquarters near Patrol Base Attal in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.
Their commanding officer was attending the meeting while Corporal McCarthy and Lance Corporal Davies and the remainder of the team were providing security when two people wearing Afghan police uniforms opened fire.
Corporal McCarthy from Priorslee will be buried with full military honours during a service at St Nicholas’s Church in Codsall at 3.30pm.
He leaves behind his father John, mother Sarah, sister Jodie, his partner Sarah and his niece Miajay and nephew Kyron.
