The body of a local servicemen killed in Afghanistan has been repatriated.

Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, who had strong links with South Pembrokeshire, was serving in the Royal Military Police when he was killed in an attack last Tuesday, November 3.

Known as Nic or W-S to his family, friends and colleagues, he was killed as a result of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in the Nad e-Ali district of Helmand province.

Aged 24, he was one of five servicemen who died in the incident which has caused national outrage.

All five bodies, together with another soldier killed in a separate incident two days later, were repatriated at RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire, on Tuesday.

After a private ceremony for the men's families, their coffins were driven to the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Headington, where post mortem examinations would be carried out for inquests.

On the way to the hospital, crowds lined the streets of Wooton Bassett and placed flowers upon the hearses.

Members of the Oxfordshire branch of the Royal British Legion also lined part of the route where the cortege approached the hospital entrance in Headley Way, Headington.

At the time of going to press, funeral arrangements for Cpl. Nick Webster-Smith, a former pupil of Tenby's Greenhill School, had not been released.

An online memorial site for people to leave tributes to the soldier has been set-up at http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/Webster-Smith/3181390">http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/Webster-Smith/3181390