Poignant tributes paid as marines’ mourned

HEARTBREAKING tributes mourning the loss of two Royal Marines who were among the first British casualties of the Iraq war remained on the gates of a barracks yesterday.

Eight Royal Marines of Plymouth-based 3 Commando Brigade died in the crash in the Kuwaiti desert on Friday.

Yesterday a bride-to-be placed flowers in a tribute to ‘Sonic’ Hedenskog, 25, who was due to be best man at her July wedding.