Plans have been lodged with South Norfolk Council to add the names of four local men to the existing First World War memorial outside St Mary's Church in Swardeston.

The application seeks permission to install an additional granite tablet at the site as a "long overdue" tribute to the villagers.

Following the war, a church organ was installed as a memorial but it was later removed during a refurbishment in the 1960s.

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The new proposal is to inscribe the names of Jack Harold Parfitt, Paul Norman Towler, George Benjamin Warnes and Frederick Michael Warren on the tablet.

The existing memorial bears the names of Edith Cavell, the Swardeston nurse who was shot by the Germans in 1915, as well as 10 men from the village who died in the First World War.

The memorial is on a well-used local walking route.

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