Football tribute to fallen soldier (From Durham Times)
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Football tribute to fallen soldier
1:28pm Friday 26th February 2010 in News
INAUGURAL TROPHY: Aaron Lincoln's mother, Karen, presents the trophy to Brogan Hearne, 13, following the first Aaron Lincoln Cup
CHILDREN kicked off a football tribute to a soldier killed in Iraq, contesting the first Aaron Lincoln Cup in memory of the late Rifleman, killed in Basra on April 2, 2007, aged 18.
Youngsters played the hour-long match on grass close to the Pelaw View community centre, on Sherburn Road Estate, in Durham City, last Friday.
Aaron’s family are still regular visitors to the centre, where a training facility is named in his honour. The match finished Lincoln FC 2 Aaron United 10.
Aaron’s mother Karen said: “This is a real honour. We’re proud of what they have done for him. He would have been proud too.”
An Aaron Lincoln Cup will now be staged during school holidays.
Rfn Lincoln, a member of 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was killed by a single bullet to the head while on patrol, seven weeks from the end of a sevenmonth tour of duty in Iraq.
