A WELL-KNOWN Wellington councillor has suggested a ceremony should be held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the town’s war memorial.

The memorial in Wellington Park was first unveiled in June 1921.

Now Cllr John Thorne has suggested to Wellington Town Council that an event should be held to mark the centenary.

Town council clerk Dave Farrow is to discuss the idea with Cllr Thorne in more detail.

The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England.

One memorial was erected in Wellington Park exactly a century ago. The park was laid out in 1902 on land provided by Messrs Fox Bros, the local cloth manufacturing company, who also gave five acres to the South-West for a recreation ground as a thanks offering for peace after the Great War.

The war memorial was unveiled on June 17, 1921, by Mr F. Hugh Fox, and commemorates the 178 local men who died during the conflict.

After the Second World War a second dedicatory inscription was added in memory of the 51 local men who lost their lives during the war – two of the names are later additions to the plaque.