Bodies of servicemen flown home

The two men died in an explosion in the province of Helmand

The bodies of three British servicemen killed on duty in Afghanistan have been flown home to the UK.

Captain Tom Sawyer, from Hertfordshire and Corporal Danny Winter, 28, from Stockport, died in an explosion in Helmand province on 14 January.

Marine Travis Mackin, 22, from Plymouth in Devon, was killed in a blast in Kajaki on 11 January.

The three have been repatriated to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. A private service is to be held for the families later.

Capt Sawyer, of the Royal Artillery, had been married for less than a year.

Cpl Winter was his company's mortar expert and had previously served in Northern Ireland and Iraq.

Marine Mackin was killed in a blast in Kajaki on 11 January

Hearses carrying the coffins of the three men were due to pass through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett on Tuesday afternoon.

Royal British Legion members, shopkeepers, former servicemen and their families have appeared spontaneously along the route to pay their respects since the first bodies began coming home through RAF Lyneham in 2007.

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