RELATIVES of the 271 Wellington men who lost their lives in the two world wars are being invited to attend a special event in the town park later this month.

The town council has commissioned a commemorative plaque to mark the centenary of the unveiling of the war memorial in the park, on which the names of the dead are recorded.

The plaque will be unveiled during the annual Armed Forces Day service which will be held at the war memorial on Saturday, June 26.

And the council is asking for any relatives of those named on the war memorial to also go along to share in the occasion.

Town councillor John Thorne, who suggested the event, said: “Two or three thousand people attended the unveiling of the war memorial in 1921.

as councillors we thought it would be a nice thing to open up the centenary event to all those people who, like me, are direct relatives of those who died.

“There must be several hundred or more people living in Wellington who might like to come along, as well as relatives who live outside the town because many of those who died were born elsewhere, in places such as West Buckland, Langford Budville, Clayhidon, Pitminster, Stogumber, Fivehead, near Langport, Sherborne in Dorset, Dunsford in Devon, to mention just some.”

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