Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid
The body of a Hampshire explosives expert killed while defusing a bomb in Afghanistan returned home today.
Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid, 30, died on Saturday while trying to make safe an improvised explosive device in the Sangin region of Helmand province.
He was commanding an improvised explosive device disposal team (IEDD), conducting what the MoD described as a ''manual route search'' to clear devices near a base.
The body of Sgt Schmid, who lived in Winchester, was repatriated this morning through RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for a private ceremony at the base's chapel.
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