CONSCRIPTED servicemen and women who fought for their country in conflicts in the 18 years following the Second World War are to be honoured by Trowbridge Town Council.

The council voted at Tuesday’s full council meeting to install a plaque to commemorate the service of the UK’s conscripted National Service men and women between 1945 and 1963.

The council is backing the initiative shown by the National Service Veterans’ Alliance in commissioning and procuring plaques commemorating their service.

Councillors have committed to working with the Alliance with the aim of placing one of these plaques in Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, close to the war memorial in the town park or in the Civic Centre foyer.

The Alliance was formed to gain publicity and official recognition of the conscripts’ service and to foster National Service reunions.

It has lobbied the government for conscripts to be awarded a Conscripts Medal for their National Service indicating where they served.

This has now agreed to be that of the ‘NDM’, the National Defence Medal to be awarded to all armed forces personnel who served in defence of the realm.

It has also lobbied central and local government to erect memorials, and/or other tangible commemorative devices to those conscripts who died.