TWO representatives from Malmesbury will be taking part in the Great Pilgrimage 90 parade.

Charles Vernon and Wayne Preece from Malmesbury Royal British Legion Branch will be joining 2,200 others, to visit First World War battlefields and take part in a ceremony at the Menin Gate, Ypres.

A decade after the end of World War One in 1928, 11,000 veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres, organised by the British Legion.

90 years on this Sunday, thousands of British Legion representatives will once again visit the same battlefields before making a trip to the Menin Gate memorial to the missing in Ypres just as, just as those did in 1928..

On Wednesday August 8, a parade will take place through the centre of Ypres following the same route as in 1928.

This time 1,150 Royal British Legion Standards accompanied by a similar number of wreath-bearers will take part.

Once at the memorial the wreaths will be laid and a ceremony will commemorate the launch of The Hundred Days Offensive and those who never returned.

Malmesbury’s wreath remembers the following men from the community whose names are inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial:

Pte W E Wakefield 2 Wiltshires MIA 24-Oct-1914 Malmesbury

Pte A E Bailey 1 Coldstream Gds MIA 29-Oct-1914 Malmesbury

Pte A Snell 1 Gloucesters KIA 29-Oct-1914 Luckington

Pte F Heavens 2 Wiltshires KIA 2-Nov-1914 Ashton Keynes

Tpr G Oram 18 Hussars DOW 14-May-1915 Malmesbury

Pte T Long 1 Wiltshires KIA 16-May-1915 Ashton Keynes

Lt J H Leckie 1 Royal Dragoons KIA 13-Jun-1915 Crudwell

Pte G White 1 Wiltshires KIA 2-Sep-1915 Crudwell

Pte A E Goodfield 1 Wiltshires KIA 3-Sep-1915 Crudwell

L/Cpl A C Hayes 1 Wiltshires KIA 25-Sep-1915 Hankerton

Pte J R B Morse 58 Can Inf MIA 12-Jun-1916 Minety

Pte T Sherwood 1 Wiltshires KIA 7-Jun-1917 Sherston

Cpl W Bailey 6 Wiltshires KIA 3-Aug-1917 Little Somerford

Pte J Chappell 1 Grenadier Gds KIA 5-Aug-1917 Sherston