Your St Helens Star wants to help honour those who have served their country during wars and conflicts.

The Remembrance Sunday ceremonies that annually draw huge crowds in St Helens and Earlestown will not be taking place, so the Star is seeking to pay tribute to those who fought in the First and Second World Wars and other more recent conflicts.

We would like you to let us know about the relatives who you are proud of and share their stories for a special in-paper supplement we will be producing ahead of Remembrance Sunday.

To take part, all you need to do is use the contact form below to send in a photograph, preferably in uniform, of your loved one with the following details:

• Their name
• The area they are/were from
• Their age now (if they are still alive) and age when they served if that is known
• Please also let us know what war they served in and their area of responsibility.

Any other information you can share – such as any particular battle they were involved in, if they were honoured for their bravery or simply how inspirational they have been to you – would also be welcome.

From Nicola Evans

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My grandad francis rigby who was killed at the end of world war 2 .

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My great uncle Sergeant Thomas Arnold was a navigator in 10 squadron RAF. Tom lived in Garswood and was the son of John and Alice Arnold and husband to Alice Littler. On the 27th of March 1944 Tom was just 21 when the Halifax bomber (HX295) was shot down by Luftwhafe fighter pilot Hauptmann Herget over Hastiere Belgium. All five crew were killed and are burred next to each other in Hotton war cemetery.

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Arthur Wallace Perkins was born in Rainhill in 1922. He attended Prescot Grammar School and later the University of Liverpool. In September 1944 he took part in Operation Market Garden, an attempt to break German communication routes by seizing bridges over the Rhine in the Netherlands. He was captured following the failed attempt at Oosterbeek near Arnhem where the surviving members of the !st Airborne Division had gathered. He spent the remainder of World War 2 in a German concentration camp.

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Walter Hunt Longton was born in 1892 in Whiston and attended Cowley School, St Helens. He enlisted with the Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1914 and was invalided home from Gallipoli. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1918 followed by the Distinguished Flying Cross to which 2 bars were added in 1919. He served in France with 85 Squadron flying out of St Omer. Subsequently he was Squadron Leader and Chief Flying Master in the RAF with 58 Squadron until his death in 1927.

From Stephen Murgatroyd

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John Samuel Leach b.1895 d.1950 my great grandad. Awarded a military medal for action on 21st March 1918.

Award certificate to go with the military medal.

From Kathryn Adamson

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My dad Kenneth Vincent Bird 1921—2016 From Eccleston. He served in the Arctic Convoys as a signalman during the war and with the navy from 1941 to 1946. He took part in the escorting of the US armies to land on Omaha and Utah beaches.

Kenneth Vincent Bird 1921—2016 From Eccleston St Helens. The photo below shows him receiving his Ushakov Medal from Russia.

Kenneth in the middle was taken July 1943 in New York on Broadway

From Ian G Munro

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630 Squadron

My Uncle. Murray Swanson Munro, bottom left.

Reason for crash

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