NORTHINGTON is to honour its war dead in a unique ceremony this summer.
The village had no official memorial but now residents have decided to re-use an old war memorial to the 2nd Lord Ashburton, Guy Baring, Winchester MP who was killed on the Western Front in 1916.
The organiser of the dedication, Peter Lamb, said many wrongly people thought the Baring memorial was the official one.
The memorial will be officially dedicated on July 14 on the 100th anniversary of the death of the first soldier from the village in the First World War.
The present Lord Ashburton has given his approval.
A grey marble plaque will be fixed by Winchester stone masons Blackwell and Moody to the base of the memorial which stands in the car park of the village church.
The villagers of Northington are anxious to alert any relatives of those that are listed on the memorial and invite them to the ceremony.
Most of the graves of the fallen can be found in northern France but other are resting in far flung places such as the Middle East and Murmansk in the Arctic Circle.
The names are Charles Albury, Henry Mills, William Cook, Jack Maton, Guy Baring, Herbert Andrews, Frederick Maton, Frank Kirby, George Cotterell, Wilfred Hale, who all died in the First World War.
William White was killed in the Second World War.
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