Stacey Quirk stared out over the desert. The dry horizon seemed to go on forever, the endless dunes stretching as far as the eye could see.
It was 2007 and the soldier was halfway through her tour in Afghanistan. The then 20-year-old felt hot under her heavy armour as her wagon made its way across the vast singed-brown.
Stacey was rushed off the vehicle by the time it pulled up to Camp Bastion. A repatriation ceremony was about to start, meaning a body was due to be returned home to the UK.
