Servicemen return home from tour

The battalion has completed operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan

Hundreds of people have lined the streets of Canterbury to welcome home soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

The servicemen took part in the homecoming parade after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The troops were the last to serve in Basra and returned to the UK at the end of May.

More than 200 troops marched through the Kent city accompanied by their Regimental Band.

Private Colin White and Private Daniel Hudson, both 19 and from Canterbury, received operational tour medals in recognition of services in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eight parades

The regiment draws many of its soldiers from Kent, Sussex, Surrey, London, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

It is also the infantry regiment that recruits from the Channel Islands.

Due to operational commitments, it is the first time in eight years the battalion, also known as the Armoured Tigers, has paraded in any of its local towns.

Last Saturday, the first of eight parades by the Tigers was held in Worthing, West Sussex.

Parades also took place in Portsmouth on Monday, in Southampton and Romsey, Hampshire, on Tuesday, in Guildford, Surrey, on Wednesday, and in Lewes, East Sussex, on Thursday and Tunbridge Wells on Friday.