Prince Harry marched along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh with 200 other members of the Armed Forces to attend a remembrance service at St Giles Cathedral this morning for coalition soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

The Prince, 23, an officer in the Household Cavalry, wore khaki parade dress and a navy cap with red trim as he followed a dozen-strong pipe band to the cathedral. A crowd of hundreds gathered in the city's Old Town shouted "well done" while the parade passed.

The service commemorated the lives of 11 British and 13 American, Danish and Czech soldiers, who lost their lives during the deployment of the 52 Infantry Brigade in Helmand province between last October and April. The relatives of ten of the British dead were at the service.

Brigadier Andrew Mackay, Commander of 52 Infantry Brigade and Taskforce Helmand, read aloud the names of the dead. A lone piper played the lament The Flowers Of The Forest, and a Royal Marines bugler sounded The Last Post.

There was a two-minute silence followed by the bugler sounding Reveille. The Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk and chaplain to Edinburgh Castle, then offered a prayer for all those who were still serving in Afghanistan.

Prince Harry spent ten weeks on the front line in Afghanistan but was flown home in February after a US website leaked news of his active service. His presence in the conflict had until then been kept secret.

About 7,500 soliders were deployed under the command of 52 Brigade, whose headquarters are at Edinburgh Castle. The brigade handed over to 16 Air Assault on April 10.

Four more British deaths in Helmand province, in a blast east of Lashkar Gah, were announced this morning.

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