PARISHIONERS at a Peebles Church spent the run up to Sunday's centenary commemorations of Armistice conducting their own research into the fallen.

A plaque within St Peter's honours eight servicemen who gave their lives during the Great War.

Mike Betts and other members of the congregation researched the eight Church members who made the ultimate sacrifice during the 1914-18 conflict.

And on Sunday, following the town's Remembrance Service at the War Memorial, several parishioners joined the Rev Colin Chaplin to lay wreathes on graves of two of the fallen - Lieutenant John Davidson and Private John Foster - who are buried within Peebles Cemetery.

Mike told us: "We felt that we should visit the graves on this special Remembrance Day to say 'thank you, you are not forgotten'.

"Accordingly a number of St Peter's congregation members, led by Rev Colin Chaplin, moved to the cemetery after the town's memorial service, and laid wreaths on the two graves."

Since the Peeblesshire News published details of the eight Church members who were killed in action - Lt Davidson, Pvt Foster, James Amos, Robert Boyd, Eric Gillett, Albert Lamb, Robert Mulholland and Robert McGill - and carried an appeal for further information, descendants of some have come forward.

Mike added: "We have as a result of the appeal heard from descendants of four of the men commemorated, and are getting more information all the time."