However, veterans are entitled to a regimental trumpeter. Read more: Jimmy Savile funeral cited in Dennis Hutchings row There were originally no plans for regimental pallbearers at his funeral as the MoD does not provide them for retired service personnel unless there is a formal request. The 80-year-old, from Cawsand in Cornwall, died in Belfast after contracting Covid-19 while he was in the city to face trial over a fatal shooting incident in Co Tyrone in 1974.
Pallbearers are being supplied by the Ministery of Defence for the funeral of Northern Ireland veteran Dennis Hutchings next week.
