More than 20 UK soldiers have died in the war
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The bodies of the first British servicemen to die in the war in Iraq are being brought home.
They are to be flown into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Saturday.
About a dozen of the 22 members of the UK armed forces killed in the Gulf will be brought back, although the number has not been confirmed.
Facilities have been set up to receive the bodies at the airbase, which is home to the RAF's tanker and transport fleets.
Squadron Leader David Rowe, from the base, said: "The caskets will be flown in on RAF C-17 Globemaster or C-130 Hercules aircraft, we don't know which yet.
"Pallbearers will then bring them off the aircraft with due ceremony and place them into a hearse."
It is believed that a gymnasium at RAF Brize Norton has been converted into a morgue, complete with a pathology lab and a chapel.
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