A new headstone has been installed to mark the grave of a fallen First World War hero who was killed aged just 22.

The stone in Witney's Tower Hill Cemetery is for Royal Engineer, Pioneer Frederick George Reginald Moore.

Although his stone is the latest to be placed in the cemetery, he is among the first recorded as interred there on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s records.

In 2017 Witney Town Council carried out research into its war graves as part of the Heritage Open Day which delved into the history of Tower Hill Cemetery.  

It uncovered the very first book of burial records for the churchyard.

Along with Frederick Moore's stone a green plaque has been erected, stating that there are 12 war graves in the cemetery - seven from the First World War and five from the Second World War.

However, some of the town's war dead are interred in family plots and do not have a headstone, while others are in graves that are not marked with any sort of memorial.

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A map showing the locations and a list of the fallen has also been installed on the cemetery noticeboards.

There are two more First World War stones and a plaque at Holy Trinity churchyard, while Lucy Harris is recorded as being laid to rest in the churchyard at St Mary’s Cogges although her grave is not marked.

All the Commonwealth war graves are maintained by the commission, which looks after the places of commemoration for the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.

Each year poppy markers are placed on each of them.