Beacon lit in Oswestry to remember fallen soldiers
The lighting of a beacon will have added poignancy in Oswestry.
The town's beacon project has been part of the Wilfred Owen Festival dedicated to the town’s most famous son and Great War poet.
Neil Phillips, of Oswestry Heritage Gateway group, said the 3,000-year-old hillfort where the brazier will lit had poignant connections with the conflict.
“A system of practice trenches dug into the top of the earthwork, which survive intact today though buried, were used to prepare troops from the nearby Park Hall military camp for action on the Western Front.
“Wilfred Owen was stationed at Park Hall in October 1916 around the time he wrote the poem ‘Storm’. It would be his final return to his place of birth before being killed in battle in November 1918.”
