A POIGNANT memorial was held to honour the first Royston soldier to lose his life in World War One last Friday.
Private Frank Moorhouse, who served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, lost his life aged 24 battling German forces in Flanders, Belgium on November 17, 1914.
On the 101st anniversary of the war hero’s death, great niece Avril James, 70, put plans in place to honour her relative.
A poem written by Avril, of Lofthouse, Wakefield, was read out at the war memorial at St John the Baptist Church in his honour, where his name is inscribed.
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