NO date has yet been set for the repatriation of a soldier killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence said.
Capt Rupert William Michael Bowers, 24, from Wolverhampton, who was with 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Helmand province.
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