THE bodies of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan will be brought home to RAF Lyneham today.

Corporal Harvey Holmes, of 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, and Sapper Daryn Roy, of 21 Engineer Regiment, died in explosions earlier this week.

Lance Corporal Barry Buxton, also of 21 Engineer Regiment, died in a road accident.

Their bodies will be flown into RAF Lyneham and, after a ceremony, their coffins will be driven through Wootton Bassett.

Cpl Holmes, 22, from Hyde, Greater Manchester, died on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off as he provided protection for his patrol while it investigated a compound in Sangin.

Sapper Roy, 28, originally from Consett, County Durham, was in a convoy in the Nad-e Ali area on Monday when his vehicle was struck by an IED. He was evacuated by helicopter but died of his injuries at the hospital in Camp Bastion.

L/Cpl Buxton, 27, from Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, also died on Monday after a vehicle he was commanding rolled into the Nahr-e Bughra canal, in the Nad-e Ali area, when a road alongside the waterway collapsed.

His wife Emma said in a statement he had been her hero and she would remain “eternally proud” of him.