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Thousands turn out for homecoming parade

the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (PWRR) marches through Tunbridge Wells
the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (PWRR) marches through Tunbridge Wells

Thousands of people lined the streets of Tunbridge Wells today
to welcome home British troops.

The homecoming parade for the 1st Battalion
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (PWRR) was held to mark the
return of the soldiers from active service in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

The Mayor, Cllr Leonard Price, presented medals to two Kent
soldiers.

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Private Andrew Neil, 22, from Tunbridge Wells, who was part
of the last British Army convoy to cross the border from Iraq to
Kuwait, received the Telic operational medal.

Private Alex Chapman, 20. from
Canterbury, who has served with the regiment for one-and-a-half
years, received the Herrick medal after returning
from Afghanistan.

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regiment.

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