Topic: Army veteran who survived two tours of duty in Iraq killed after crashing (Read 267 times)

* Mark Kingston, 50, died while riding his bicycle in Bracknell, Berkshire
* Retired father-of-two suffered major cardiac arrest and died at scene
* Widow had spent years braced for bad news as husband fought abroad
* Could not believe it when police told her he had died in cycling accident

A former sergeant major who survived two tours of duty fighting in Iraq has been killed after crashing into a tree while mountain biking.
Mark Kingston, 50, died while riding his bicycle in Bracknell, Berkshire, on an adventure trail after suffering a major cardiac arrest.
Today, the retired father-of-two's widow Anna Kingston said how she had spent years braced for bad news as her husband fought abroad - and could not believe it when two policemen told her he had died in a cycling accident.
Paramedics and an air ambulance crew who rushed to the scene at the Look Out Discovery Centre on Saturday spent more than two hours unsuccessfully trying to revive him at the scene.
Mr Kingston, who received medals for long service and good conduct and fought in Iraq in 2003 and 2006, left the British Army as a company sergeant major in 2007 after 22 years.
He started his Army career in 1985 in the Third Battalion Queen’s Regiment before moving to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
The keen cyclist had taken on the 15-mile cycle network through the forest on a number of occasions before his death on Saturday.
Mrs Kingston, 46, said she always prepared for the worst while he was fighting overseas but did not expect her fit and healthy husband to lose his life during a cycling trip.

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