A REMEMBRANCE ceremony will take place in Hartford to mark those who lost their lives in a Second World War plane crash.

On April 15, 1944, an Albemarle bomber, flying low over Hartford, crashed into the wall opposite the row of shops on Chester Road killing all but one of its five-man crew.

One of them was a Hartford man and he is remembered on a plaque which marks the crash site.

Hartford Civic Society has organised the Remembrance service for Wednesday, April 15.

The Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire will formally unveil a plaque with alongside the granddaughter of the Hartford Crewe member Sgt Aubrey Gerald Crowe, known as Gerry.

Air Cadets and representatives of the RAF Association with their standards will take part in the commemoration, which will be led by an RAF Padre.

The Last Post and Reveille will be sounded and a piper will play the lament 'Flowers of the Forest'.

Among those invited are several eye witnesses of the crash, Cheshire West and Chester Council's Hartford councillors, parish councillors, members of Hartford Civic Society and those who offered donations towards the cost of the plaque.

Pat Hatfield, from the civic society, said: "It is hoped that, should funding ever be available, the story of the crash and the names of all five crew members could be displayed on a panel so that this important event in the history of the village is never forgotten."

The service takes place at 4pm at the crash site opposite the shops in Chester Road.