ALMOST 90 years after the guns fell silent, two casualties of the First World War will finally be commemorated on war memorials close to where they fell.

Private Victor John Vincent Henley, of Led-bury, and Lance Corporal Gilbert Allsopp, of Broms-berrow, whose bodies were never found, slipped through the net as authorities struggled with the sheer number of casualties to be named on memorials.

Research by Shrewsbury historian Philip Morris has righted that error. He came across the omissions when researching the men's regiment, the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry.

Ironically, both are recognised at home, Pte Henley appearing on the Ledbury war memorial and L/Cpl Allsopp on Bromsberrow's.

Pte Henley will be added to the memorial to the missing at Menin Gate, Ypres, in Belgian Flanders, which records 53,000 men lost in the first and second battles of Ypres.

L/Cpl Allsopp's name will go onto the 150-feet high Thiepval Memorial to the missing in France, which holds 72,000 names of men lost during the Somme offensive of 1916/1917.

Both men were members of the 5th Battalion KSLI and both enlisted in Hereford in August 1914.

The additions have been approved by the Ministry of Defence, after Mr Morris presented evidence to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Lloyd Meredith, chairman of the Ledbury Branch of the Royal British Legion, said: "These men are entitled to be there. They were obviously missed by their communities. There were an awful lot of men who were never found."

11247 Pte Henley died at the Battle of Hooge, Ypres, on September 25, 1915, four months after landing in France. He was the son of Mrs and Mrs V Henley of New Street and, before enlisting, was a grocer's assistant to Mr F W Taylor of the High Street.

11046 L/Cpl Allsopp died at Deville-Wood, the Somme, on August 24, 1916. He landed in France on May 22, 1915 and served in the trenches at Ypres before seeing action at Bellewaerde and Hooge. Born in Bromsberrow, he lived at Caison Hill.