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Last Updated: Thursday, 18 November, 2004, 12:05 GMT
Third Scots soldier laid to rest
Sergeant Stuart Gray
Sgt Gray died in an attack on a vehicle checkpoint
The funeral of the third Black Watch soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq has taken place in Fife.

Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects to father-of-two Sergeant Stuart Gray at Trinity Parish Church in Cowdenbeath.

It followed the funerals of his comrades in Glenrothes and Kelty earlier this week.

Sgt Gray and Privates Scott McArdle and Paul Lowe died in the attack on a vehicle checkpoint on 4 November.

The deaths came after the regiment had moved north to Camp Dogwood from operations in the Basra area.

An Iraqi interpreter also died in the attack.

Full military funerals have already taken place in Glenrothes and Kelty for Pte McArdle and Pte Lowe.

A service for Sgt Gray took place in Cowdenbeath before he was taken to be buried in Dunfermline.

Arriving at the church, Sgt Gray's widow Wendy, held the hands of the couple's two children Kirstin, 12, and 10-year-old Darren.

An inquest into the deaths was formally opened in Oxfordshire last week and adjourned until a later date.


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