Picture plea for birthday project

Another person has come forward to put a photograph to one of the names of a fallen hero, remembered on a Newark war memorial.

The project, featured in the Advertiser, is a hunt to put faces to the 603 names on Newark’s Memorial To The Fallen at Newark Cemetery and 58 names on the memorial inside St Giles’ Church, Balderton.

The project is being coordinated by Mr Pete Stevens, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission stonemason, of Balderton.

The aim of the project is to find all of the pictures, to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the first world war in 2014.

So far 18 people have come forward with pictures of relatives or of their gravestones.

Mrs Violet Garrett, 66, of Queen Street, Balderton, gave a picture of Mr Thomas William Garrett, who served the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and died in 1916 in Gallipoli, Turkey.

The picture shows Mr Garrett, the grandfather of her husband, Mr Melvyn Garrett, 67, in a 1905 Langar-cum-Barnstone Football Club team.

Current pictures can be viewed online at www.memori alphotoproject.tumblr.com

Any relative of one of the fallen featured on either memorial and who has a photograph or who can help, contact Mr Stevens via Petejstevens@hotmail.co.uk or contact the Advertiser newsdesk on 01636 681234.