Grenadier Guards who held Queen's coffin aloft now in heat of Iraq facing ISIS

With nerves of steel and rubber-soled boots worn especially for the occasion, they held the Queen's coffin aloft as more than four billion people looked on. But some of the men of the Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards who formed the centre of Monday's state funeral, were last night acclimatising themselves to a very different kind of theatre - the searing climes of Northern Iraq.