HERO soldiers are to have their names inscribed on war memorials around Huddersfield.

And among the first to be remembered are three who gave their lives in Afghanistan.

Capt Lisa Head, Pte Anton Frampton and Pte Daniel Wilford will have their names added to war memorials in their home towns and villages next month.

And Kirklees Council is urging the friends and families of other fallen servicemen and servicewomen, whose names have not been added to war memorials, to get in touch.

The rededication of a war memorial to Cpt Head at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, on November 4, begins a council campaign to honour the borough’s unsung casualties of war.

War memorials in Longwood and Slaithwaite will be rededicated to Pte Frampton and Pte Wilford respectively on Remembrance Sunday.

Capt Head, a 29-year-old bomb disposal expert from Almondbury, died in hospital in April 2011 days after being caught in a blast while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

Pte Frampton, 20, of Longwood, Pte Wilford, 21, of Cowlersley, and Cpl Jake Hartley, 20, of New Mill, died in March alongside three comrades, when their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in a blast from a Taliban improvised explosive device.

A plaque in Dewsbury was rededicated to Cpl Hartley, in June.

Another Huddersfield soldier, Pte Tom Wroe, 18, of Meltham was killed in Afghanistan last month, but officials at the War Commission have yet to verify all the details.

The campaign to honour war heroes is funded by Kirklees Council and is open to service personnel who died in all conflicts from the Boer War to the present Afghanistan conflict.

Almondbury ward councillor Phil Scott, who served in Bosnia during the war in former Yugoslavia, is helping lead the campaign.

Clr Scott said: “If people know they have family members who have died in the Korean, Falklands or Bosnian conflicts – or any other conflict – we can request a memorial in their town is rededicated to them.

“It’s rather poignant and it’s a great way to celebrate their lives even though they have been cut short.

“Since World War Two there have been so many conflicts and there will be soldiers who are not on the memorials and who deserve to be. But obviously we understand that some families may not want their relatives on a memorial and we respect that.

“We are liaising with the relevant authorities over Pte Wroe and would like to have his details in time for Remembrance Sunday, but that may not happen”.”