Royal British Legion members are urging people to join them lining the roadside to symbolically pay their respects to the 102 soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
This afternoon Thames Valley Police will be providing an escort to five servicemen killed in Afghanistan in the past week.
Royal British Legion members in Oxford will line the roadside in Headington, as the cortege, escorted by police from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, approaches the John Radcliffe Hospital. Post mortems will be carried out at the JR before the bodies can be released to their families.
The soldiers are scheduled to leave RAF Lyneham at 4.30pm.
The cortege will be escorted through Wootton Bassett, along the M4, up the A419 and into Oxfordshire at Gable Cross on the A420, and then along the A40 northern bypass before travelling along Marsh Lane and Headley Way to the entrance of the hospital.
The cortege could arrive at the JR any time after 5pm.
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