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Hundreds Pay Respects at RAF Veteran's Funeral
Around 300 people have gathered to attend the funeral of an RAF Veteran they never met.
Keith Ingham Nutbrown died earlier this month at Treflys Care Home in Llandudno, Wales, at the age of 83.
Little is known about him, but it is believed that he served with the RAF in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
The Royal Air Force Association stepped in and appealed for people to attend his funeral to pay their respects after it emerged that he had no known friends or relatives to bury him.
They received more than 20,000 hits to their website asking for more information and also passing on condolences.
And so many people ended up coming to the funeral that it was standing-room only in the church, with some people having to listen to the service from outside.
Servicemen and women and veterans lined the entrance to the crematorium, meanwhile, and members of the RAF performed a fly-past.
Jessie Phillips reports.
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