EIGHTY-SIX years after a soldier was killed at the Battle of the Somme a poignant memorial to him is being established in a tiny North Yorkshire chapel.

A framed picture of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Christopher Scott Kemp with an inscription will be hung at the chapel in Markenfield Hall, near Ripon, where he worked as a farmhand.

The memorial was arranged after L Cpl Kemp's grandson, Malcolm Kemp, who lives at Bilton, Harrogate, had been given a family tree for his 60th birthday from his son Nigel, an RAF corporal based at Lyneham in Wiltshire, and his daughter Tracy.

Their research revealed L Cpl Kemp's connection to the Markenfield estate.

Mr Kemp decided to visit the hall and told the owners Lady Deirdre Curteis and her husband, Ian, about his grandfather.

Mr Kemp said: "I knew grandfather was killed in the war because I heard stories about it as I grew up.

"But when the local Markenfield link was mentioned I wanted to visit the place and see where he worked as a young man."

A ceremony will be held at the chapel in the coming weeks.