THE names of the two soldiers from Tetbury who have died in service since the end of the Second World War are set to be added to the town’s war memorial.
Both men died during the last two decades and were involved in separate plane crashes.
Lance Corporal Gary Manning was an Army Air Dispatcher with RLC and died in May 1993 when the Hercules he was flying in crashed during manoeuvres near Blair Athol, Scotland killing all on board.
Lance Corporal Manning was the only Army representative on board.
Sergeant Richard Brown, an RAF engineer, was in the Hercules shot down over Iraq on January 30, 2005.
Rev John Wright, of St Mary’s Church, said: "It is important that remembrance is kept up to date and that those who have died more recently in service are to be remembered every bit as much as those who died in the two world wars.
"Just because there are fewer of them does not make their sacrifice any the less."
Funding has been agreed with a contractor and the Parochial Church Council of St Mary’s Church and Tetbury Town Council are paying £100 each for the work, which is hoped to be completed in the next few weeks.
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