FALLEN soldiers from Oxfordshire will be remembered at a special ceremony in Oxford today.

The Turning the Pages ceremony will take place at the Military Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral off St Aldate’s at 11am.

The ceremonies are held four times a year to remember those who gave their lives in the two world wars.

Families of the fallen soldiers are invited to attend, and among those who will be at the cathedral is John Durham, from Faringdon.

He will be there to remember his uncle, Private James Wearn, of the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died in Italy in September 1943.

Mr Durham, 73, said he would be at the cathedral with his brother Mike Durham, 66, and sisters June Coombs and Diane Mander.

Mr Durham said: "My uncle was killed in Salerno in Italy on September 27, 1943.

"His grave is in Salerno war cemetery and my brother has visited it.

"I'm pleased that my uncle's name is being read out and we thought it was right that we should attend the ceremony."

The tradition was started by Colonel Richard Hill, a former officer with the Royal Green Jackets, and after he died he passed the responsibility to Colonel Mike Vince MBE.

Names of soldiers are read out and a page from the Book of Remembrance is turned in its glass case.

The ceremonies are regularly attended by past and present members of the armed forces, the Royal British Legion and the Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force.

Colonel Mike Vince MBE is list organiser for the ceremony, which honours soldiers from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars.