AN appeal has been made to recover the 50th and final wooden soldier that was made to commemorate 100 Trowbridge residents who fought and died in the First World War.
The Trowbridge Chamber put forward funds, along with Sportsbug and Polebarn Hotel, to get 50 medium-density fibreboard soldiers made by bespoke cutting company, The CNC Project, for the 2018 Armed Forces Weekend.
They were then put in different places in the town for every soldier, and two Trowbridge residents who fought in the Great War had their name and biographies fixed to the wooden soldier.
Trowbridge Chamber chairman Tracy Parker wanted to put them up for Armistice Day but one is missing.
“One soldier, which has the biographies of two Trowbridge residents who died in the war, is missing in action and we need him back,” she said.
“Please can it be returned to Leykers, in White Hart Yard, as soon as possible.”
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