Strangers turn out for British ex-serviceman's funeral
- Published: 22 Feb 2013 at 02.43
- Online news: World
Hundreds of strangers attended the funeral of a former British royal marine on Thursday in response to a Facebook and Twitter appeal launched to ensure he would not be buried without mourners.
View of a British military cemetery in the Falkland Islands on March 25, 2012. Hundreds of strangers attended the funeral of a former British royal marine on Thursday in response to a Facebook and Twitter appeal launched to ensure he would not be buried without mourners.
James McConnell died in a care home last month aged 69 or 70 without any family and with only a handful of friends and the local vicar to mark his passing.
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