THE NAMES of the men and women who died for their country will live on for generations to come in Fareham.
The restoration of the town's war memorial outside Holy Trinity Church has now been completed with many of the inscriptions replaced.
Subsidence and bad weather had caused many of the names on the memorial to become illegible over time.
The council agreed to spend £10,500 to fund the replacement of 13 plaques with three larger ones.
The accuracy of the new inscriptions was checked against records of the war dead held at Fareham Library and the Imperial War Museum.
Executive member for health and environment Councillor Leslie Keeble said: "It is important to the memory of those who died for their country that our memorials are maintained.
"The work carried out on Fareham War Memorial has ensured that these inscriptions will be legible again for another 80 years."
The memorial was built in 1920 to commemorate those who gave their lives during the First World War.
Extra names were added later to commemorate those who died in the Second World War.
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