The body of a Dewsbury soldie killed in Afghanistan will return to Britain today.

Corporal Stephen Curley, of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, will be flown back to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire with the bodies of two other servicemen killed in separate incidents.

A private service will be held at the base’s chapel before the cortege passes through nearby Wootton Bassett. Hundreds are expected to line the town’s High Street in tribute, as has become custom.

Corporal Curley, 26, born in Dewsbury, was killed on May 26 in an explosion while on a foot patrol through the southern Green Zone to reassure local nationals. He lived in Exeter with wife Kirianne and their five-month-old son William