Eight members of the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment were also wounded that day.
The three soldiers belonged to the 17th parachute regiment stationed in Montauban, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
The building is the base for the Fourth Battalion Parachute Regiment 10 (London) company of the Territorial Army.
Pte Martin Bell, 24, from Bradford, was serving with the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment when he died.
"The Parachute Regiment demands, and gets, high standards from its soldiers which are not compatible with drug misuse, " Lt Col Gibson said.
The 27-year-old, who was a physical training instructor with the Parachute Regiment, was diagnosed with cancer in September 1999.
Colleagues from the Parachute Regiment saluted the cortege and veterans lowered standards.
On Monday a British Army spokesman said members of the Third Parachute Regiment were heading in large numbers for Basra's old city.
The charity supports families of paratroopers from 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, who have been wounded or killed while serving in Afghanistan.
The troops killed were from the 2nd Battalion of Britain's Parachute Regiment.
Derry man Damien Donaghy was shot in the leg about 15 minutes before the Parachute Regiment moved into the Bogside area of Derry.
Staff Sgt James McCormick of the Royal Engineers and Cpl William Owen, of the Parachute Regiment - were awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.
Brian Witty, 41, previously a Territorial Army Parachute Regiment captain was convicted of three rapes and a sexual assault, at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court.
Police described the former TA Parachute Regiment captain as "a predatory rapist" and said they feared more women may have been his victim.
Members of the Parachute Regiment shot Joe McCann several times as he ran away from police in Belfast, a team of detectives said.
The three were members of the same parachute regiment in Montauban as the soldiers killed in the attacks on 11 and 15 March.
The British soldiers will include units from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, 3 Commando Brigade, 16 Air Assault Brigade and 45 Commando Royal Marines.
Mr Kay, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, said the volunteers also had access to many of the resources available for people seeking help.
The shots seemed to come from an area patrolled by the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment, the inquest in Oxford was told at the earlier hearing.
Stuart MacKenzie, 52, from London, who was a corporal in the Parachute Regiment during the Falklands conflict, said he simply wanted to "nod my head and show respect".
Prince Charles is Colonel in Chief of the Parachute Regiment.
Four members of the Parachute Regiment - Pte Paul Coleman, Maj Adam Dawson, Maj Russell Lewis and Maj John McDonald - were awarded the Military Cross for their service in Afghanistan.
Mr Kane, who served with the Parachute Regiment until 10 years ago, said he had gone to the house of his friend Ryan Black in the afternoon, leaving his grandmother watching television.
They want the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment - known as 2 Para - to encircle the movement, along with elite US troops from the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions, the paper reported.
For example, both the Marine commandos and the army's parachute regiment are supposed to serve the new Joint Rapid Deployment Force, but they never train together and, by tradition, despise each other.
Lt James MacDonald of the third Battalion The Parachute Regiment put himself in the firing line to identify a Taliban sharpshooter earlier this year - before leading a team to neutralise the threat.
In his memo to the prime minister, Cabinet Secretary Sir Burke Trend, the most senior civil servant, recommended Mr Heath review the activities of the Parachute Regiment which was being moved to Derry as part of the operation.
Ardrossan soldier Sgt Glen Gardiner, of the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, received the Military Cross for running through enemy fire to try to save the life of an Afghan National Army soldier who had been critically wounded.
He said he was unsure whether the firing was from the Army or civilians but assumed the automatic fire could not have come from the Parachute Regiment because of the rules governing engagement in Northern Ireland at the time.
The only other British soldier to be awarded the VC for bravery in Afghanistan was Corporal Bryan Budd, 29, of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, who was killed when he single-handedly stormed a Taliban position in Sangin in August 2006.
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