The six men were all based at Goojerat Barracks in Colchester, Essex Two men are expected to go on trial in Iraq later accused of murdering six Royal Military Police officers in 2003.
Hamza Hateer and Mussa Ismael al Fartusi will go before Baghdad’s central criminal court.
The military police officers – or Red Caps – were killed by a mob in the southern Iraqi town of Majar al-Kabir.
John Hyde from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, whose son L/Cpl Benjamin Hyde, 23, was among the dead, said the case was making “slow progress”.
The other Red Caps who died were Sgt Simon Hamilton-Jewell, 41, from Chessington, Surrey; Cpl Russell Aston, 30 from Swadlincote, Derbyshire; Cpl Paul Long, 24, from Tyne and Wear, L/Cpl Tom Keys, 20, from Bala, North Wales, and Cpl Simon Miller, 21, from Tyne and Wear.
They had been on a routine operation to train local police, and according to some reports had been playing football with the Iraqi police officers when a crowd of between 400 and 500 people attacked.
24 June 2003 – Six soldiers are killed by a mob while defending a police station in Al Majar al-Kabir, 120 miles north of Basra.
22 January 2004 – Sgt Simon Hamilton-Jewell’s brother calls for a public inquiry. This request has so far been rejected.
31 March 2006 – An inquest into their killings finds the men had been given antiquated radios and inadequate ammunition. Coroner Nicholas Gardiner rules their deaths were unavoidable.
4 May 2006 – Iraqi authorities issue first of 16 warrants for the arrest of suspects.
12 February 2010 – Eight Iraqis are arrested in connection with the case. One is later released.
August 2010 – The men’s families are told by the MoD that charges against five of the seven remaining suspects have been dropped.
The six men were chased into a police station, where they were shot.
Their families have long campaigned for those responsible to be brought to justice.
In February, Iraqi authorities took eight people into custody. Of those, six have had the charges against them dropped.
Last month the hearing involving the two remaining men was adjourned to give witnesses more time to travel to court.
The families of the six men have been told they will not be allowed access to court during the trial.
Instead, updates will be e-mailed to them via the British embassy in Baghdad and the Ministry of Defence.
An inquest into the Red Caps’ killings in March 2006 found that the men had been given antiquated radios and inadequate ammunition.
The soldiers had 50 rounds rather than the standard 150 rounds and had left base without a satellite phone, meaning they could not call for help.
But the coroner said having and using better communications would not have saved them and found they were unlawfully killed.
The families of the men have been calling for an independent inquiry since then, arguing that negligence by Army personnel led to their deaths.
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