A service of remembrance was held to mark the 100th anniversary of a fallen soldier's death.

The service took place at Whitchurch Canonicorum War Memorial for Frank Wiscombe, who died in France on May, 8 1918 during the First World War.

Mr Wiscombe was born in Ryall in 1880 and lived with his mother and grandmother.

He left the area in 1896 after the death of his grandmother and went to find his fortune in London, where he met Elizabeth Hodder from Morcombelake.

The two married in 1900, and moved in 1908 with their daughter Bessie to Banstead in Surrey.

Frank worked on a farm at the nearby asylum where inmates helped with the self-sufficient nature of the business.

When the First World War broke out, the men working on the farm were encouraged to join the army and the London County Council kept their jobs open for them and continued to pay their wages to their dependents whilst they were away.

Frank joined the sixth Dorsets in 1915.

He was wounded in 1916 and, after recuperating, he joined the 2nd Wiltshires.

He fell in battle in May, 1918 and was buried at the Klein-Viestraat British Cemetery in Belgium.

The British Legion branch in Banstead, Surrey, where Frank is commemorated on the war memorial, requested that the Lyme Regis branch organise Mr Wiscombe's memorial.

The Lyme Regis British Legion branch contacted Sylvia Creed-Castle, who had completed a similar project for Char Valley Parish Council, where she researched the stories of 22 soldiers with family history volunteers for a four year project.

The work from that project was presented in March, and was titled 'One Hundred Years on: The Whitchurch Men Who Went to War'.

Sylvia said: "Because I'd been doing boards for the others, I did this one.

"I had people help me as I don't have all the programmes needed, and through census records I was able to trace his family tree.

"I don't know if they [Frank and Elizabeth] knew each other before they met, given that they were nearly from the same village."

The memorial service attended by the Lyme Regis British Legion Branch president Philip Evans, secretary Chris James and standard bearer Jon Hunt.

The Reverend Jane Skinner conducted the service, and a wreath was laid by the president, whilst Elizabeth Carter played the last post and reveille, separated by a one minute silence.

After the ceremony, refreshments were served in the church where Frank Wiscombe's life and war record were on display for all to see.