The body of a soldier from Kent who was killed in Afghanistan has been returned to the UK.
Rifleman James Brown, 18, from Orpington, died when two suicide bombers on a motorbike blew themselves up outside Sangin in Helmand Province on December 15.
Lance Corporal David Kirkness, 24, from West Yorkshire, also died. Both were from 3rd Battalion The Rifles.
They were hailed as heroes for preventing mass carnage in a bazaar packed with Afghan civilians.
Also flown home was the body of Corporal Simon Hornby, 29, of 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, who 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.
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