Remembrance had a very personal flavour this week at Ditton Primary School in Widnes.

Pupils were each given a wooden disc on which they depicted a poppy or a symbol of remembrance along with a name of a family member who served in the armed forces.

The discs were then tied to the fence at the front of the school, creating a wall of remembrance for the school community.

Among those commemorated in the display was Lance Bombardier Albert Hodgkins, great, great, great uncle of Connie-Mae. Albert was killed at Monte Cassino, Italy in 1944, aged just 24.

James commemorated his great, great gramps Eric Simpson, who survived fighting in Burma and died in 2009.

And George and Emma remembered their great grandad George. George, who died in 2009, served on anti-aircraft guns during the Second World War.

Service in the armed forces is in George and Emma’s family – their dad Thomas is a serving soldier in The Royal Engineers and he will be participating in the remembrance parade being held at Warrington Cenotaph on Sunday.

Janette Pyne, Head of School at Ditton Primary, said: “We had a really good response from our children about the remembrance display, supported by parents who helped them to research their relatives who had served in the armed forces during wartime. Parents were crowding around the display and the children are really proud of it.”