Relatives of a soldier killed in action during the Battle of the Somme more than 80 years ago gathered to remember their fallen hero.

In a simple ceremony, the family of Lance Corporal Christopher Scott Kemp commemorated his sacrifice at Flanders.

The service was held near the fields where he once worked as a farm labourer.

Sixteen relatives led the congregation in the chapel at Markenfield Hall, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, to remember L Cpl Kemp, as a picture of him was hung in the chapel.

His great grandson, 31-year-old Christopher Kemp, of Oatlands, Harrogate, also took part in the service.

Fourteen-year-old Ripon College student Carl Kemp, from Bridge Hewick, near Ripon, placed a poppy over his great-great grandfather's photograph. A simple inscription marking the sacrifice of the 29-year-old soldier was added to the picture.

The service was conducted by Canon Keith Punshon, of Ripon Cathedral.

The idea of the memorial came when L Cpl Kemp's grandson, Malcolm Kemp, of Bilton, Harrogate, researched his family tree.

L Cpl Kemp, who served in the 11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) was killed in the third Battle of the Somme at Passchendale in 1917.

Research through the War Graves Commission has shown that his final resting place is marked at Tynecot in Belgium.