PLANS are well underway for this year’s Remembrance Day in Bovey Tracey.

It will be marked on Sunday November 9 with a 10am service at the Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas.

Uniformed youth groups will be on parade and will march down to the War Memorial for the laying of wreaths following the service.

Mayor Cllr Sheila Brooke and other civic figures are expected to attend.

A road closure will be in place for the duration.

The parish lost 56 men in the First World War and 14 others in the 1939 to 1945 conflict.

One woman, Private Alice Grace Heath (called Grace), of the Auxiliary Territorial Service also lost her life during the Second World War.

Born on August 15 1925 in Bovey Tracey, Grace was one of seven children of John and Ethel Heath of Lower Pottery Cottages and had been employed at the Hawkmoor Sanatorium and the Rock Hotel, Haytor Vale, before the war.

She joined up in September 1942 and served with a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft unit.

She contracted tuberculosis in October 1943 and was medically discharged on 28 February 1944.

She died at the Hawley Hospital in Barnstaple on 26 June 1944, aged 18, and was buried in the town cemetery on July 1.

The inscription on her headstone reads: ‘Deep in our hearts, She is living yet, We all loved her too dearly, Ever to forget.’

Her fiancé, Private John Black, was serving in North Africa at the time of her death.