CHARITY hikers are walking from Coast to Coast to raise funds for a trust set up in memory of a North Yorkshire soldier killed in Iraq.
Lance Corporal Ben Hyde, 23, from Northallerton, was killed in June 2003, while serving with the Royal Military Police.
The Ben Hyde Memorial Trust was set up by his family three years ago.
His father John Hyde and three friends are now walking 190-miles from St Bees, in Cumbria, to Robin Hood’s Bay, on the North Yorkshire coast.
The group set off on Saturday, May 16, carrying a stretcher with a dummy dressed as a soldier and they aim to reach the end by May 29.
Sandra Hyde, Ben’s mother, said: "It’s something John wanted to do and the others said they’d like to do it too.
"None of them are walkers but they’re hoping to be into North Yorkshire towards the end of this week."
The Coast to Coast walk was made famous by hiker Alfred Wainwright and passes through the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks.
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