<p><br /> Crowds stood in the rain to pay silent tribute to three soldiers killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan as their bodies were returned to British soil on Tuesday.<br /> </p><p><br /> Rifleman Daniel Holkham, 19, Lance Corporal of Horse Jonathan Woodgate, 26, and Serjeant Steven Campbell, 30, were all killed in Helmand Province this month.<br /> </p><p><br /> A C-17 Globemaster transport plane emerged through the grey, rainswept sky shortly after 11am as the three soldiers were repatriated to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.<br /> </p><p><br /> A private ceremony was held at the base's chapel before the coffins made the sombre journey through the nearby market town of Wootton Bassett in the afternoon.<br /> </p><p><br /> Residents, shopkeepers and ex-servicemen followed recent tradition by lining the high street to pay their respects in a moment's silence as the soldiers' Union flag-draped coffins were driven through the town.<br /> </p><p><br /> The funeral corteges paused while onlookers laid flowers on the hearses before continuing the journey to the coroner at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.<br /> </p>
