HOUND Cemetery in Netley Abbey, Hampshire, was the scene of an ANZAC Day ceremony early yesterday.

Phil Williams, chairman of the Netley Abbey and Hamble Branch of the Royal British Legion carried the standard and Dunkirk veteran Stan Rickeard gave the RBL exhortation.

Maureen Queen, local resident and parish councillor, laid a poppy wreath on the grave of Private Thomas Henry Hargreaves of the 1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment who died on October 1 1919 aged 22 in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley from wounds he had received a year earlier on the Western Front.

He was buried in Hound cemetery rather than the Royal Victoria Hospital military cemetery because he had been befriended by a local young woman from Bursledon, Lucy Fisher, who volunteered at the hospital, by reading to the wounded soldiers and writing letters home for those unable to do so themselves.

Last year when researching the names of the men featured on Hound's War Memorial, local historian Paul Keast discovered that four names were missing - one of them being that of Private Hargreaves.

Due to his diligence these names have now been added to the war memorial which was rededicated in May last year in their honour.