250 soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment have paraded through Warminster ahead of their nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. Five soldiers from the same Battalion were killed in an explosion in the south of the country ten days ago.
The town of Warminster came to a halt today to pay their respects to six British soldiers killed in an explosion in Afghanistan last week and to see off their comrades who are about to deploy to the warzone.
Hundreds of people waving Union flags lined the streets as 400 soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment marched through the Wiltshire town, with the Duke of York, colonel-in-chief of the Yorkshire Regiment, taking the salute.
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