Armistice Day: Powys church's WWI love story tribute - BBC News

How two strangers and love letters from Gunner Willie Webber to wife Gladys led to a unique act of remembrance.

Image caption, Gunner Willie Webber sent his new wife Gladys more than 100 letters from the Western Front over 10 months

"My darling girl, you are everything to me..."

Those words were written by Gunner Willie Webber to his wife Gladys from the battlefields of World War One.

The newly-weds, who were married at St Edward's Church in Knighton, Powys, in December 1917, had very little time together as Willie - a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery's 297th Siege Battery - was serving on the Western Front. He was killed just weeks before the Armistice in 1918.

More than a century later, Willie's letters have inspired an extraordinary act of remembrance by the community - thanks to the efforts of two strangers who refused to let the couple's love story be forgotten.