This is Exeter -- DETAILS of the funeral for an Exeter sapper who was killed in a car crash earlier this month have been announced. Sapper Kieron Blight, 19, of 26 Engineer Regiment will have a funeral with full military honours. It will be held at St. James Church, Dry Lane, Christow, near Exeter on Tuesday, December 3 at 12noon. This will be followed by a private cremation in Exeter. At the time of his death, tributes poured in for the soldier "of huge promise" who died in a car crash in Wiltshire. An Armoured Engineer, he was a passenger in a Mazda X5 convertible which hit the kerb and overturned before colliding with a tree at around 6.30pm on Monday, November 11. He leaves grieving parents Stephen and Mandy, who live at Bridford, sister Hayley, and his beloved girlfriend Emily. His commanding officer at 26 Engineer Regiment,Lieutenant Colonel John Ridge, said: "If you were to sit down and list the qualities required of the perfect sapper, they would sum up what we had in Sapper Kieron Blight. He was keen, professional, courteous and bright. "Above all, he loved his armoured engineer trade. During our recent deployment to Canada, whenever he got the chance, he would race off to clamber all over our tanks and chat to his fellow crewmen: anything to learn more about armour and how to get the best from it. Canada was his first big exercise, but it was already clear that he had huge promise, so much so that he had recently been selected to attend training to be a Junior Non Commissioned Officer. "Despite his young age and boyish looks, his maturity and professionalism made him naturally respected amongst his peers. I have no doubt that he would have been a Lance Corporal before most of them.""We are all shocked by his death, but know how little our loss compares to that of his parents Stephen and Mandy, his sister Hayley, and his beloved girlfriend Emily."
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This is Exeter -- DETAILS of the funeral for an Exeter sapper who was killed in a car crash earlier this month have been announced. Sapper Kieron Blight, 19, of 26 Engineer Regiment will have a funeral with full military honours. It will be held at St. James Church, Dry Lane, Christow, near Exeter on Tuesday, December 3 at 12noon. This will be followed by a private cremation in Exeter. At the time of his death, tributes poured in for the soldier "of huge promise" who died in a car crash in Wiltshire. An Armoured Engineer, he was a passenger in a Mazda X5 convertible which hit the kerb and overturned before colliding with a tree at around 6.30pm on Monday, November 11. He leaves grieving parents Stephen and Mandy, who live at Bridford, sister Hayley, and his beloved girlfriend Emily. His commanding officer at 26 Engineer Regiment,Lieutenant Colonel John Ridge, said: "If you were to sit down and list the qualities required of the perfect sapper, they would sum up what we had in Sapper Kieron Blight. He was keen, professional, courteous and bright. "Above all, he loved his armoured engineer trade. During our recent deployment to Canada, whenever he got the chance, he would race off to clamber all over our tanks and chat to his fellow crewmen: anything to learn more about armour and how to get the best from it. Canada was his first big exercise, but it was already clear that he had huge promise, so much so that he had recently been selected to attend training to be a Junior Non Commissioned Officer. "Despite his young age and boyish looks, his maturity and professionalism made him naturally respected amongst his peers. I have no doubt that he would have been a Lance Corporal before most of them.""We are all shocked by his death, but know how little our loss compares to that of his parents Stephen and Mandy, his sister Hayley, and his beloved girlfriend Emily."
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