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An inquiry has begun into the death of six soldiers shot dead in Iraq.
Corporal Russell Aston from South Derbyshire died with five colleagues whilst guarding a police station.
It is thought they refused to leave their posts despite coming under attack.
The Army's Special Investigation Branch is looking into what happened, but the soldiers' families have been told they are not allowed to attend.
However the relatives have been told they will be given edited transcripts of the proceedings of the inquiry, which is expected to last several weeks.
Corporal Aston, 30, from Coton in the Elms, was one of six military policemen killed in June 2003.
His father Mike Aston met Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon last month to give him a 1,000-name petition calling for the six soldiers killed in the ambush to be honoured.
The five other men who died were Corporal Simon Miller, 21, from Tyne and Wear, Sergeant Simon Alexander Hamilton-Jewell, 41, from Chessington, Surrey, Corporal Paul Graham Long, 24, Colchester, originally from South Tyneside, Lance-Corporal Benjamin John McGowan Hyde, 23, from Northallerton, Yorks, and Lance-Corporal Thomas Richard Keys, 20, from Bala, N Wales.
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