The bodies of eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been repatriated back to the UK, landing at RAF Lyneham where a private memorial was held.
Among the repatriations was Rifleman William Aldridge, who was one of a group rescuing comrades from an explosion when he and several others were killed in a second blast.
The cortege passed through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett, where thousands of people had lined the streets to watch it pass.
People threw flowers on the slow-moving cortege as it carried the bodies of the eight soldiers, who were killed in a single 24-hour period.
For some of those watching the funeral cortege at Wootton Bassett, the grief at the tragic loss of life was too much to bear.
This man was among the thousands who had gathered to pay their final respects to the eight dead soldiers.
The funeral cortege travelled East along the M4 motorway towards the mortuary based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
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