Chipping Sodbury was lined with thousands of people as it held its Remembrance Sunday event on the weekend.

However the name of one Chipping Sodbury soldier name may have been forgotten or not known by many because he does not appear on the famous monument at the bottom of the High Street.

Leslie George Harry Pope was born in Clevedon in 1899 to Henry and Nellie Pope before moving to Bristol at some point before 1911.

From here he then moved with his father, who was a jobbing gardener at The Great Lodge over Sodbury Common, to Chipping Sodbury.

A gentleman called Neil Gibbs contacted St John's Church, just off the High Street, earlier in the summer to make them aware of the fact they had another fallen soldier from the small town.

Pope formed a part of the 2nd Devonshire Regiment in WW1 and later, other divisions.

Having fought bravely in the war, Pope died of his wounds on April 19th 1918 in France.

He is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery not far from Calais.

After learning of the missed name, the church contacted Jane Lund who created the exhibition on the soldiers that was on display in St John's.

She then approached Chipping Sodbury Town Trust, who have control over the monument, about the possibility of adding Pope's name to the list.

Jane, who is also a member of the Trust herself, was pleased they could honour Sodbury's own forgotten soldier.

"My reason for being so interested would be that we were pleased to find out that Leslie was from Sodbury," she said.

"Having been sent the information from the War Graves Commission we were only too delighted to add him to the list,

"Having had information from family we were really pleased to do it and it is a nice way to mark the centenary of the war."