Among the hundreds of uniform white graves, one in particular caught Iain and Joyce Hewitt's attention.

They had travelled from Keighley to Flesquieres Hill, a British War cemetery in France, for personal reasons and stumbled across the grave of a young man from Keighley.

Iain said: "We just caught sight of it in the list of people buried there, as the only one from Keighley.

"We went to the grave and sure enough he was from Worth Village."

The grave they found was that of James Walton Waterhouse, who was rifleman 56041 in the Prince of Wales's Own Eighth Battalion.

The son of Robert and Ann Waterhouse of 10 Oastler Street, James died on September 27, 1918, aged 18.

Iain continued: "We just wondered whether there were any of this man's family still in the area. Maybe someone who has been trying to trace their family or who didn't know what had happened to James Waterhouse and would be interested to hear of his military past."

A BBC2 series about life in the trenches, filmed near the village of Flesquieres, is set to start tonight at 9pm and shows how a group of 24 men coped with travelling back in time.

They experience life in the simulated trenches according to regimental diaries that survived from the war.