She discovered three brothers from Pulham St Mary, whose deaths in the fields of Flanders during the First World War had never been commemorated in this country.

Now 92 years later, the Goldspink brothers' names are to be etched on the war memorial in the village where they were born. Descendants of the family will take part in a parade and dedication ceremony to honour them.

Mrs Keeble, from Starston, had already compiled her own family tree stretching back to the 1600s when she decided to have a look at her husband Keith's ancestry.

"I used to talk to Keith's grandmother who was almost 90 by the time she died in 1999, and I would quiz her and ask lots of questions about the family. She told me her grandmother's name was Ann Goldspink," said Mrs Keeble.

Ann had a brother called James who was the father of the three brothers who died in the First World War.

Born in Pulham St Mary, James and Ann had seven children – the three brothers, two other children who died in infancy and two daughters, whose history Mrs Keeble is still trying to investigate.

The three brothers joined the Norfolk Regiment and fought in northern France. Herbert James was killed in action, aged 20, in September 1915, and his two older brothers, Arthur William, 23, and Charles Samuel, 25, were killed on the same day in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

Their deaths are commemorated on war memorials in France but nowhere in this country, so Mrs Keeble approached the local church to ask for their names to go on the memorial at Pulham St Mary.

Mrs Keeble said: "I am really pleased that their names will now be commemorated here. It's very important because they gave their lives for us."

The Goldspink brothers' names will join those of their cousins, who also died in the First World War. Members of the Goldspink family from other parts of Norfolk and as far afield as Yorkshire have been invited to attend a commemoration ceremony on September 21 at 3pm.

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