The Royal Anglians paraded in Norwich on Thursday

The 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment took to the streets of Bury St Edmunds where they were given the Freedom of the Town.

Nine troop members were lost during the fight against the Taleban in Helmand Province over the last six months.

The parade came after 300 soldiers marched through Norwich in front of hundreds of people on Thursday.

Lt Col Stuart Carver paid tribute to the men in Norwich and said they had fought in one of their toughest tours in the regiment's 43-year history.

More than 500 troops from the region are still in Afghanistan, where the Royal Anglian regiment was at the forefront of fighting.

Fifty-seven soldiers from the regiment were wounded in battle.

Lance Corporal George Davey, 23, from Beccles, and Pte Aaron James McClure, 19, from Ipswich, were killed in Afghanistan.

The regiment took part in a thanksgiving service on Bury St Edmund's Angel Hill, before parading along Churchgate street, Guildhall Street and Abbeygate Street.