AS Redditch prepares to remember, we recall just a few of the gallant soldiers who laid down their lives in the First World War.

Signaller Philip B Jarvis (left), of 289 Battery RGA, was killed in action in France on October 27, 1917.

He lived in Archer Road near the town centre before the war but was sadly killed aged just 21.

A month before he died, he wrote a letter to the Redditch Indicator from the trenches on the Western Front saying how he enjoyed having the newspaper sent to him by his family to see how "dear old Redditch is getting along".

Also pictured is his grave near Ypres and the report of his death published in the Indicator.

Below is a picture of Captain Philip Milward, who died on December 7, 1915 from wounds received in France.

He was a member of the family who owned Washford Mills needle and fishing tackle factory in Ipsley Street.

A picture of Frank Saunders, of Hunt End, is seen on the right.

He was killed in action in the first battle to ever use tanks at the Somme on September 15, 1916.

These and many other pictures and anecdotes from both world wars and other conflicts are featured in the book Redditch At War by historians Alan Foxall and Ray Saunders, available from the Redditch Advertiser reception in Church Green East.