The bodies of five British soldiers killed in Afghanistan arrived back in the UK this afternoon.
They were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire before 3pm for a repatriation ceremony attended by their loved ones.
The men, all from 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, based at Colchester, Essex, died in the past week.
Following the ceremony, a police escort will bring a cortege to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where post mortems will take place.
Members of the Royal British Legion from across Oxfordshire are planning to show their support by lining the roadside to pay tribute when the cortege passes.
Privates Nathan Cuthbertson and David Murray, both 19, and Daniel Gamble, 22, were blown up by a suicide bomber last Sunday.
On Thursday, Lance Corporal James Bateman, 29, and Private Jeff Doherty, 20, were killed when they came under Taliban fire.
Their deaths take the number of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan since November 2001 to 102.
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