THE bodies of two Royal Marines and two soldiers killed in a makeshift bomb attack on a patrol boat in southern Iraq were due to be repatriated today to RAF Brize Norton.

The body of Kingsman Jamie Hancock, who was killed by small arms fire in Basra on November 7, will be on the same flight.

The 19-year-old from Wigan was on sentry duty at a Coalition Forces base in central Basra City when he was shot.

Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, from Ipswich, of the Army's Intelligence Corps was one of the four people killed on Sunday.

She was the second woman to die in action in Iraq since the conflict began.

Also killed were Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins, 35, of the Royal Signals, and two Royal Marines, Corporal Ben Nowak and Marine Jason Hylton.

Cpl Nowak, 27, lived in Liverpool and served with 45 Commando, but was attached to 539 Assault Squadron.

Marine Hylton, 33, lived with his parents in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, and was from 539 Assault Squadron.

The four died when a bomb, believed to be a home-made device attached to a jetty, exploded near their boat on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra city.

Three other service personnel were seriously injured in the attack, which brought the British death toll in Iraq since 2003 to 125.