A husband and wife from the Devizes Branch of the Royal British Legion will be taking part in Pilgrimage 90 next week as a standard bearer and wreath layer in memory of a similar trek undertaken on August 8, 1928 a decade after the end of the First World War.

The Devizes pair of Chas and Jan Stonestreet will be joined in Ypres by branch president Jeff Matthews and chairman Lt Col Bobby Haslam. Mr Stonestreet is the branch standard bearer and his wife the wreath layer. A remembrance message from Devizes schoolchildren has been placed on the wreath.

During the visit a remembrance poppy cross will also be placed on the grave of Sgt Harry Perrett originally from Rowde, near Devizes, who fought and died during the First World War with the Coldstream Guards. His medals, which were donated to the Legion are now in the Guards Museum.

The Devizes contingent will join others from all over the country for the Legion's biggest membership event in its history.

The march will go from the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres to the Menin Gate where a wreath from each branch will be placed on the memorial. It will be followed by a march past observed by civic and military guests from the UK, Europe and Commonwealth countries.