Lyneham

Since 2007, the bodies of service personnel have been repatriated via RAF Lyneham and taken on to a hospital in Oxford via Wootton Bassett's high street.

Wootton Bassett marks end of repatriation days 2011

Lyneham is closing – the coincidence of more RAF and army job losses being announced was not lost – and a new repatriation centre has been opened at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, along with a memorial garden in Carterton where that union flag will be hoisted.

Wootton Bassett marks end of repatriation days 2011

The body of the aid worker, from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, was brought to Britain on a RAF flight to the air force base at Lyneham, in Wiltshire.

Body of British aid worker killed in Afghanistan flown back to UK Richard Norton-Taylor 2010

They pass through—on the way from the nearby airbase at RAF Lyneham, to their appointment with the coroner at the big hospital in Oxford.

Bugles Still Blow on Britain's Sad Shire Sam Leith in London 2011

As for morons4war, sorry Islam4UK, I suggest they are led down Wooton Basset high street to Lyneham, put in a Fat Albert and then dropped off in the North Atlantic.

Inspector Gadget In The Sun. Gotcha! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town three miles from RAF Lyneham, which has become a focal point for funeral processions of fallen soldiers returning from Afghanistan.

Wootton Bassett marks end of repatriation days 2011

Flying home to Louisiana as a passenger on a C-54 that November because his mother was seriously ill, Navy mechanic Hewitt LeBlanc got frustrated because the plane was sitting on a taxiway in Lyneham, England, while a mechanic tried to get the starter to work on one engine.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

Starting about two years ago, townspeople began gathering for the processions of each soldier as the body, in a flag-draped casket, was moved from Lyneham to a coroner's office in Oxford.

British Coffins Raise Ire Over Afghan Push 2009

Inhabitants of the town have become known for the respect they show to the bodies of those killed overseas and returned home via the nearby Royal Air Force base at Lyneham.

A Fight on Many Fronts 2009

Adrian Harlen/Associated Press A coffin, left, containing the body of Private John Brackpool, 27, was carried to a waiting hearse after arriving at Lyneham.

Sad Arrivals Home in U.K. 2009