The bodies of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been returned to the UK.
Lance Corporal David Kirkness, 24, and Rifleman James Brown, 18, both of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died when two suicide bombers on a motorbike blew themselves up outside Sangin in Helmand Province on December 15.
They were hailed as heroes for preventing mass carnage in a bazaar packed with Afghan civilians.
Corporal Simon Hornby, 29, of 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was killed by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in the Nad-e-Ali area of Helmand on Saturday.
The soldiers' bodies were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire before a private ceremony for their families.
Hearses carrying their Union flag-draped coffins were brought through the high street of nearby Wootton Bassett on route to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where post-mortem examinations will take place.
As has become tradition, hundreds of British Legion members, former servicemen, shoppers and well-wishers lined the street in silence to pay their respects.
Friends and relatives sobbed as the coffins came into view and paused by the war memorial for around four minutes.
Dozens of roses were placed on the three hearses with weeping mourners touching the glass windows.
